Christmas Angel Issue

[pop pop]

If wrong, mods please move. Our Christmas Angel with moving parts pulled one wire into, so now half the lights are not working. I found the two ends and stripped the covering back - no wire, just white threads. Kept stripping back for about 12 inches as I know sometimes insulation stretches. But there appears not to be a metallic wire here. What am I missing?

 

[pattenp]

Are the lights LED?

 

[manwithtools]

Fiber optic? White threads make it sound that way.

 

[Bert_]

Some wire intended for high flexibility have some white fibers woven in with some extremely fine copper strands.

Most headphones use stuff like this.

 

[PassnThru]

Fiber optic? White threads make it sound that way.

This. Is the light at the base?

 

[pop pop]

No, not FO nor LED. Seems to be old school (6 years old?) two prong push in bulbs. Strange to me.

 

[PassnThru]

Even the FO would probably still use a halogen bulb for the light source. Can you land the 'wire' close to the light source? Maybe hold the wire close to the bulb and see if light comes out the other end. A flashlight would work also.

 

[pattenp]

Some wire intended for high flexibility have some white fibers woven in with some extremely fine copper strands.

Most headphones use stuff like this.

I'm now thinking like Bert. I've tried to repair a broken cord on a leg hair removal torture device my wife uses and the stripped wire looked like a cotton string with some very fine copper threads in it. It was virtually impossible to splice together to make a repair.

 

[dowmace]

Sounds similar to headphones wire. Take a lighter to the strands there could be Cooper woven into the fibers, the copper wont burn off like the cotton.

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[rburke65]

Maybe time for a new angel.

 

[pop pop]

I'm hoping the wife finds a new one!

 

[CJ7VFR]

Can you replace the entire broken wire with some regular thin green Christmas light wire? It might not last as long as the fine wire that is there now, but at least you might be able to make the angle work again.

Jim