A portable Amphenol connector cord with 8 wires in it. Some of the wires have shorts. How do I find them?

Question

The previous answer was great if I had a clue which I don't since I am new to this. How does a newbie (me) do the following that "DA" generously told me to do?:

"It will actually depend on the length of the cable. If it's a cable installed in a building, you'd have to use a specialized testers for that or use a multimeter to measure the capacitance between two of the conductors (use a pair if the conductors are twisted pairs). If you have a pair of conductors that is known to run the full known length, measure its capacitance. Then divide the capacitance of the pair in question by the capacitance of the full length pair and multiply that by the length of the full pair. This will be the approximate length to the break from the end you are measuring from.
If there is no good pair of conductors, lookup the standard capacitance per length unit. Then just divide the measured capacitance by the standard capacitance - it will be your length."

Answer 1

To be honest if you have a small length cable with shorts in it's better just to replace it. Check inside the plugs to make sure the shorts aren't occuring inside or if they are intentional links. If you can't get a replacement take the connectors off of the old one and as you do mark which colour wire goes to which pin at either end. Get a new piece of wire and solder the connectors on with the wires in the right order.