My charger almost caught on fire yesterday !!

Well fortunately I got ahold of a long lost macbook 60wat charger and my MacBook should be using a 85watt charger but the good part is that is that the 60 watt works fine with the macbook pro but what is the deal with these chargers Apple should have recalled them literally if I have left the charger plugged in much longer it probably would have short circuited and caught on fire !!!
but since the 60 watt is working fine do you think there will be any problems in the future with me using the charger even though it should be used with a macbook not a macbook pro ???
Thanks !!!
(hopefully Mac will fix the images in the forums soon !!!)

actually it does I'm running the macbook pro without the battery right now and it works fine and unfortunately I can't get a new charger because my apple care expired
Sure you can. Buy one. using a 60W power supply for something that needs a 85W power supply means you can run or charge but not both at once. So just buy the proper device.

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