Headphone repair job Well, I managed to fix my headphones. I'm not terribly good with a soldering iron, but this job seems to be holding very well. It took a while to scrape the paint off the tips of the coated wires (that's what the box knife is for), and tinning the wires before putting them through the tiny holes in the replacement 1/8" stereo jack was just an exercise in "Arrrgh!" I had to wear my reading glasses (that's them in the upper left), which makes Omaha swoon because I look so "distinguished" (c'mon, really: that's just another word for being old, isn't it?) but everything fell into place quite nicely, the retaining crimp crimped solid, and hopefully this won't tear apart on its first day out. And if it does, at least this time I know how to fix it.
Oh, that little clampy thing (under the wire tangle, next to the nail clipper) works great as a heat sink to keep the plastic shield around the whole of the wire mass from melting.
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