strips, loosen the trim with a small pry bar, wrap the plastic around the wire, and slide it between the wall and trim. For industrial motifs, hide electrical wires in surface-mounted conduit ...

But [Matthias Wandel] may be on to something. Here he’s using nichrome wire to reinforce the broken plastic part. The repair process is demonstrated in full in the video after the break.

Like the graphite in a pencil. Or this salty water. Now, the outside of electric wires are usually covered in plastic because it’s a very poor conductor. It hardly conducts any electricity at ...

The electrical circuits in our homes use metal wires coated in plastic. The metal wires conduct electricity, which means the electricity can travel along it. Metal is a conductive material.