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    Default Help requested to resolder headphone jack

    I've a lovely pair of Fostex TH600 headphones.
    The previous owner had the stock 1/4 inch jack plug replaced 'professionally' with a 1/8th inch jack.
    But it doesn't seem to have been a very good job, and the contact can be intermittent.

    Can someone with the soldering skills that I lack have a look and redo the job?
    Happy to pay, of course.

    Mucho thanks.
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    Might be a poor plug to socket contact. There doest seem to be any great accuracy in 3.5mm plugs
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    Ah, that could be.
    Difficult / impossible to tell where the break is, could be a poor fit of plug into socket, I guess. Maybe a slightly non standard 1/8 inch jack has been fitted?
    But problem does persist on a range of sockets that I've used.
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    Do you ever get to Hereford ? I would be happy to re solder them for you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blueflash View Post
    Do you ever get to Hereford ? I would be happy to re solder them for you.
    Many thanks, Alex. I am sure that a trip to Hereford can be organised. I'll drop you a PM.
    Following Grant's comments I'm not sure if a straight re-solder or a new jack plug is needed?
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    Could also be in the cable near plug. Need to try and see alas. I've got an expensive one to twin rcas that does this. The plug is never nice and tight
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    I have found the same issue with some headphone plugs and the adapters


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