[sdiy] switching jacks

[Matthew Smith]

Quoth Dave Manley at 02/02/11 19:31...
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> My experience with any re-bent metal is it fatigues and breaks off, but I've
> only replaced old jacks - sorry no help here.

I guess the insulating material on these is paper or plastic (all I've 
ever seen) so knocks out my favourite method of fixing fatigued metal - 
raise to red heat with blowtorch. Annealing is your friend ;-)

Then again, if it can be disassembled, this could be an option. But 
probably not!

Cheers

M

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