Fixing the charging cable

My original charger stopped functioning after 4.5 years. For last year or so it seemed like it had a loose connection somewhere and once I folded the cable near the socket and taped it, it worked. Now it completely stopped, IIRC, it costs quite a bit to replace it.

I was wondering if I could just open it and fix (assuming that some wire is coming loose). So, while I tried to see how I can open, I hit a road block, the screw head (drive) it has doesnt seem to match any tool I have or what ever I could see in Lowes. I searched the List of screw drives - Wikipedia, no luck.

Can any of you tell me what kind of screw head it is and is it a reasonable thing to try to open and fix it?

Here is the picture of the screw

Thanks in advance.

 

Agreed, I dont know what I was thinking . I also remember that it was around the same time I discovered that the inner washer (within the socket) also had come loose and coming in the way of properly latching it. So, I removed the misaligned washer and things worked. I thought folding may not have been required. But, anyway... yeah I should've tried to fix it right then.

 

Most of the things I seem to find are for iphone and macbook. I am not sure if those are too small for the charger unit. I am bit hesitent to order from internet and finding it that it doesn't work.

I am going ahead and ordering this from amazon.

Let me see if that works.

 

It seems to twist and wrangle a lot, my guess is that it may have caused it. I haven't driven over it or anything. It may have been dropped few times, but no crack or any damage on the unit apart from this seemingly loose connection.

 

As I thought it is pretty small. It doesn't work. I dont know how to search for this driver!