revtothelimit - motorbike forum

I’ve managed to snap the securing tab from inside an RJ45 socket on a device (Amazon FireStick Ethernet adapter) through a combination of clumsiness on my part and those bloody hard plastic “wings” on moulded RJ45 patch leads.

My planned fix is glueing in a patch lead into the socket as a permanent fly lead.

There is a little wiggle room in the socket so whatever glue needs to have a degree of gap filling properties and also hold the plug in to maintain the connections and also be non-conductive should it come into contact with the pins.

So what say you?

Hot glue gun, a blob of melted plastic sounds perfect.

Just use some duct tape round the device and the cable, it won't be pretty but it will work.

Can't you wedge it with a match stick or something? Seems a bit less drastic.

If it's for networking it needs to conform to RFC8140 or maybe RFC4824.