Replacing the jack on a pair of headphones

Step 4 Cleanse it with fire

You should end up with 2 copper coloured standed wires, one red, and one thats green or blue. Red is for Right bLue is for Left and the two copper ones are ground

Lots of people suggest scraping off headphone wire with a knife. Using a microtorch is a much more effective method. Clamp the wires with a third hand, or just hold the wires and heat the tips till red...
The wires might also burn. The idea is to burn off the enamel coating the headphone wires have before soldering them

Comments

[yoricktf]

hey is there anything else you can use aside from microtorch, lets say, a gas stove???? or maybe even a plain lighter??

[safdar]

you can use a lighter and then use sand paper to clean the wire up a bit

[osgeld]

plain lighters are not all that clean burning, leaving suit all over the wires your trying to clean (altho you CAN do it) anything with a blue flame should work fine

[faileas]

You want a hot, VERY focused heat source. Some lighters *do* have a microtorch style blue flame, and should be usable. If you're using a stove, you'll need to strip off more of the plastic insulation, and be a lot more careful. I tried it, but the microtorch is worth the 10 quid or so it costs IMO ;)

[EleriK]

A torch lighter counts as a microtorch, right? (the kind that makes the small jet of green/blue flame)

[faileas]

Yup. As opposed to the dirty yellow flames most have