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Permalink Reply by Skeesix on April 15, 2012 at 5:22am

I've done repairs to headphones before. In the ones I've done, the wires are coated with a paint-like insulation. One is red and one is green. Use an Xacto knife or fine sandpaper to scrape the paint off the wires. If you do see any thread or fiber like material (mine was white), you can just ignore it. I think it's in there to give the cable strength because the wires are so thin.

The jack sounds like it's a mini jack (3/32") instead of the more usual 1/8". If that's the case, you can get a new one from Radio Shack.

Permalink Reply by Jim Olean (JimO) on April 15, 2012 at 6:00am

Thanks for the input.

Permalink Reply by petey twofinger on April 16, 2012 at 9:37am

scrape method works , so does burning the paint off

 i have also started just applying flux and using a high temp iron to tin em 

. I CLEAN THE FLUX OFF WITH ALCOHOL WHEN I AM FINISHED . 

so yeah ,  i do it wrong . 

Permalink Reply by Jim Olean (JimO) on April 17, 2012 at 2:13am

sometimes wrong IS right.  thanks for the input.