[sdiy] Repairing headphones

[ed cope]

Well a lot of them have a copper coating on the wires, just like the 
coils i used to solder when working in an electronics factory,  we used 
to heat the wires up with the soldering iron and rub it up and down a 
bit,  it seemed to get rid of the coating and tin in one go nicely.  
This is prob a bit doggy, but it seemed to work.
-ed


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.
>
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