Blog Archive & Low budget X-MEN. Zombie-Fication! Tutorials. How To Repair a Headphone Cable and Replace a Jack Plug. I think you'll agree, headphone cables break more often than we'd like. These tiny pieces of plastic, rubber and copper put up with a lot of stress, especially when used in conjunction with portable media players and during daily commutes.
Walking down the street, twisting and curling the cable, seeking that magic sweet-spot that brings your left speaker back into play makes for a frustrating and wasteful trip to your local electronics emporium for a replacement. Tools You'll Need Find the offending section of cable The first thing we need to do is work out where on the cable the break has occurred. First, plug the headphones into an audio source and put on some music.
Put the headphones on, bend the cable 90 degrees across the top of your thumb and run it along the length of the cable starting at the jack-plug end. Fixing a Mid-cable Break I can't stress this enough: slide the shrink tube on NOW. Splicing the Cables There are two common types of wire splices, Pigtail and In-line.