A broken cable on the headphone cable: it Is a repair possible?
- When repairing a headphone cable, you can not make much wrong, nor much broken. In the worst case, the headset will remain defective.
- The connected device can not be damaged due to a defective headphone. You pull the headphones in for repair yet, from the MP3-Player or Smartphone.
- Headphones start at the connection of the rule with a single cable, and are divided above into two cables. In the following tutorial we will show you how you can repair both body.
Headphone cable repair
Headphone cable repair cable break
Note: In this example, we will repair the cord just below the headset, where the cable already has split.
- First make sure by feeling where the cable is broken. Take a sharp bag, rug, or kitchen knife and cut the rubber sheath of the cable at the appropriate point. You just cut in the envelope, not in the cable. The cut should be around an inch long.
- You will now see the cable break. The cable is frayed at the point, usually something. To disconnect the break complete with a pair of scissors, and then twist and twirl the Ends with your fingers.
- Each other wrap the two wires so that the connection is re-established. To do this, you need to remove a few cases, the rubber sleeve a little, so that the cable is a little shorter.
- You can then lock the cable with insulating tape. To Need, it also does simple tape.
- The cable break occurs where both cables are still hanging in a string, you need to be especially careful: In the cable, two other cables. This allows you to treat each as in the instructions above.
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