Pulling out tip of a broken 3.5 jack connector

A while ago I had very unfortunate problem. I found out that the tip of my headphone connector (jack 3.5mm) had broken and stayed within laptop "female" connector.
Since there is a small pin that fixates jack within female connector, I couldn't get it out just by shaking my laptop.
You can see rough sketch of the broken connector pin in the picture.

So how to get it out? I first disassembled my laptop trying to get to the connector from within. Unfortunately that connector was fully enclosed so I was not able to get to the broken pin.
Since usage of headphones/external speakers is crucial for me, I started to think of other ways to do this.

   Than I had an idea which actually worked.
What to do? Follow the steps.

Step 1 Solder the tip of a wire

You have to take about 6 cm of a wire, take of the isolation and solder its tip so it would be covered in tin. Wire diameter shouldn't be bigger then 3mm.

Comments

[francisdsa]

A nice idea dude. but you can end up damaging the female connector with the heat and solder too. i had a similar issue and this is how i did it.

the same part was stuck in the socket.
i used the other half of the jack to pull out the tip.
i took some instant super glue or instant cement and put a very small drop of it on the tip.
i inserted the jack into the socket. this joined the tip and the jack back together
after a few minuted, i just gave is a good tug outwards and the jack was out completely.
make sure the cement or glue drop is just enough that it wont spread around the jack and not too little that it solidifies quickly.

let me know if any of you tried out this trick. it worked for me very well

~ Francis D'sa

[ANDY!]

a good idea for sure. I found it easier to bend a sewing needle and slip it underneath the jack. Takes about 3 min. I also tried glue but it gets stuck.

[rimar2000]

Very clever, thanks for sharing.

[kelseymh]

Nice trick! It seems like this would work with the socket still in the laptop.

[marmeks]

Sure it would!
I had this problem while socket was in the laptop. In the pictures I have just recreated the problem.