[AiVAMAN]

Hello everyone, my dog had just eaten my headphones cable, so I tried to repair it myself instead of buying new ones...
I have watched this video on *******:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mSNCuZ9hho[/ame]

I did exactly the same as in this video, separated that stuff, and put them back together (one problem, that i had 3 wires instead of 4, but who cares, I did everything correctly), aaaaaand, my headphones won't work. What's the problem then?

Thanks,
-Aivaras.

[Anthonyx3']

No flame intended, just buy new headphones, cost like $10 lol

[sherlock]

the problem is people upload crap to ******* that isnt real. Buy new ones dude. and $10?! where the hell do you shop?

[iFriSki]

Wal-mart sells $10 headphones. Usually sound like crap though.

As for the topic, may I ask what brand and model your headphones are? Does it have a built in microphone? You might be better off skinning the plastic/rubber off the other wire (if possible) and comparing it. Might also be a bad connection somewhere else in the line.

[sherlock]

well the best pair of headphones i ever had/have (headphones NOT earphones) cost i think Ј12 (dunno how many $) and they are proper professional ones and the sound quality is epic

[[L3th4l]]

LMFAO, yeah just buy a new pair of headphones. I HIGHLY recommend to get skull candy headphones, worth every penny!

[Mauzen]

Hehe, you all got too much money? If you can fix it yourself, why should you buy a new one, even if it only costs one dollar? Fixing headphones takes max 2 minutes if you know what you are doing

Didnt watch the whole clip, but there are 2 common reasons.
If the wires have paint coating for isolation, you will have to remove it carefully with a knife. It is hard to explain, try to scrap a bit on a wire, if the color "falls off" and you see something shiny under it you can be quite sure that they are coated (95% of all headphones have coated wires, as they are cheaper to produce). Remove the paint as good as possible on ~1cm of each wire end and twist those shiny parts of the same colour together. Now pick some tape and wind it around all blank parts from which you removed the color. Should work now

If the wires are not coated, they will be fused seperately in the first isolation that you have to remove first. If they are, try to isolate all loose wires that you twisted together with some tape. Be sure they do not touch each other.

[AiVAMAN]

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Originally Posted by Mauzen Hehe, you all got too much money? If you can fix it yourself, why should you buy a new one, even if it only costs one dollar? Fixing headphones takes max 2 minutes if you know what you are doing Didnt watch the whole clip, but there are 2 common reasons. If the wires have paint coating for isolation, you will have to remove it carefully with a knife. It is hard to explain, try to scrap a bit on a wire, if the color "falls off" and you see something shiny under it you can be quite sure that they are coated (95% of all headphones have coated wires, as they are cheaper to produce). Remove the paint as good as possible on ~1cm of each wire end and twist those shiny parts of the same colour together. Now pick some tape and wind it around all blank parts from which you removed the color. Should work now If the wires are not coated, they will be fused seperately in the first isolation that you have to remove first. If they are, try to isolate all loose wires that you twisted together with some tape. Be sure they do not touch each other.

Thank you, that's what I thought about after posting this thread, bus scraping is bad idea I think. I will try to solder about 1cm of every wire as you said, and then put some isolating stuff on it. Theoretically it should work. I will try it as soon as I can.

P.S. I don't understand guys that buy new stuff instead of fixing it, its like Mauzen said 2 minutes work and you are done. I can buy something else for that $10. D