[sdiy] Repairing headphones

[harrybissell]

Yes... they use a form of magnet wire in a multistrand cable. The one I
fixed
had six strands bare and one coated.   The enamel coating can be scraped
off with
a knife, or burned off with high temperature. One of those micro-torch
butane lighters
might work. I use x-acto knife...

H^) harry

Scott Bernardi wrote:

> Is there a trick to soldering those micro leads in a set of
> headphones? My present set is developing a short in the molded jack. I
> tried to replace the jack on a set a while back and found it
> impossible to solder the leads - they seemed to be coated with
> something.
> It seems a shame to junk a decent set of headphones because of
> something that >should< be so easily repairable.