How to keep magsafe pins up?

Those pins are spring loaded and the repair is a replacement. You could fly to Sydney and get a new one at an Apple store. 🙂

Ciao.

Are they not available online? ebay? Amazon?

RIFerrarr wrote:

Are they not available online? ebay? Amazon?

I know of only two sources for genuine Apple chargers, Apple and OWC. All of the rest are counterfeit knock offs.

Ciao.

You can order another one from apple, I've had 2 macs so far and neither of the power bricks has failed, mmake sure you get the right power adapter though as the 45 watt one on a mba says not charging when plugged in, but if you can't find one just get one from Amazon or eBay like RIFerrarr said

What about the New Zealand telephone number in this page?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201232

Ciao.

OK ranting at us is not going to help.

This is a OEM Apple charger? Examine the pins under extreme ( At least 15X. ) magnification. There should be a .2 mm gap between the pin radius and the plastic body. Is there?

OGLETHORPE said:

"Those pins are spring loaded"

So you can push the pins in and they won't return? Is there some kind of crap on the pins/charger connector?

If there is it might be possible to clean it off by immersing in a solvent. Depends on the crap.

Water soluble? - Boiling deionized H2O. Hope you unplug the charger first.

Not? Try 90% isopropyl alcohol. (Careful flammable,)

Other solvents are likely to damage the plastic.

Blow clean with compressed air, hair dryer and leave overnight to dry.

Wait

" i've managed to get them back up (it was a burden to)"

Did you damage the pins or plastic surround?

If that happened the above is probably not going to help.

" keep those darn pins up, with tape, super glue, or whatever"

Non of that is going to help.

So if you have the pins up and carefully insert the connector, it won't charge?

".....Sorry."

OK it's understandable to be frustrated.

So answer the questions I asked.

Hindsight but:

"New Zealand is technically known to most as the "Isolated Planet" because of it's geographical location,"

I'd always have backups if I was in that situation.

"it only charges for about 2-3 seconds before stopping again."

So we need to get the pins more mobile.

"they noticeably pop up"

Pop up quickly and are even?

"it only charges for about 2-3 seconds before stopping again."

Do you mean changes to green from amber? or goes black?

Can you lay hands on another charger?

Have you tried resetting?

Reset SMC

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295

Reset NVRAM

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063

Absolutely glad to help.

So nurse and baby your charger along until you can get a replacement sent in. Those pins should move freely and something if definitely wrong w/ the charger connector.

The fact that the connector was messed up probably sent the SMC for a loop and thats why it needed to be reset.

Good luck and thanks loads for the checkmark!