Be careful of headphone Jacks!

[deckard26354]

Just a quick heads up folks out there!

Just had a major headache. You would suppose the lovely gold screw in converter jacks with a pair of Sennheiser HD25 II's woudl be of the utmost quality

Just spent over an hour trying to remove the rest of the connector from my 4-chan mixer, thinking it would never come out, now to repair the mixer.
Removed after much hair pulling these remains:

headphones problem.jpg

Look's like there was a sheer in the plastic connector and the pin has just popped out!! so beware.

[Patch]

Ouchy!

[brocklambert]

Happens all the time... just gotta be careful

[KS2]

Didn't realise they split like that. Any reason they do? I assumed the black bits were put into a machined out slice in a solid jack.

[Cook]

ouch! glad you got it out, hope the mixers ok,
Stuff like this just shouldn't happen.

[brocklambert]

Didn't realise they split like that. Any reason they do? I assumed the black bits were put into a machined out slice in a solid jack.

Because each piece is a separate component... The plastic insulates the signal of each.

[KS2]

Because each piece is a separate component... The plastic insulates the signal of each.

Ah well there you are. There was I thinking it was just to tell the difference between stereo and mono

[deckard26354]

ouch! glad you got it out, hope the mixers ok,
Stuff like this just shouldn't happen.

Mixer's being put through it's paces this morning again. Bit of a Heath Robinson-Glue gun repair to the headphone input though. Pain in the butt. But at least the Audio and Headphones are working again, thats all that matter's.