My House and Home Blog

Don’t throw away perfectly good earphones. Many people suffer the problem of a loose or broken wiring to their jack connector. Well you can avoid this problem by holding only the jack connector when pulling it out of your MP3 player or phone and not holding on the wires to do so. However, because we are all so lazy this problem continues to occur so for everyone who is already looking at a broken jack connector here’s how to fix it:

1. Cut the wire an inch from the jack connector using nail clippers (if you have actual wire cutters go ahead and use them instead).
2. Separate the two wire cables in the non-jack connector end.
3. Use nail clipper to cut through the plastic ends of these wires but not the metal wiring inside. Then pull the plastic covering off. (Wire cutters have their own special part for doing this, simply place the wire in the appropriate sized hole and then pull).
4. Skin the wire ends of the jack connector wires and use a knife to remove the thin coating on the tips of the wires.
5. Use a multimeter to check the conductivity of each wire so you can figure out which wires go to which donor wires.
6. Remove any silky white fibers on the donor wire. and scrap off the thin layer of lacquer on the tips of these wires too.
7. Now simply twist the wires that match together.
8. If you have a solder iron, GREAT! use that on the exposed wires to sold them together. If not carefully wrap the wires in electrical tape or use shrink tube.