Repair Your Headphones (clean Repair) !

by bakn90

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Intro: Repair Your Headphones (clean Repair) !

How many headphones do you throw away every year, because one speaker don't play music?

Often, it's a simple problem:
The cable is broken.

So, why don't solder an other cable on the headphone?

What we need:
-headphones
-new headphone cable (3,5mm)
-solder-iron
-knife
-glue

STEP 1: Open Your Old Headphones

Open the headphones with the knife carefully.
Please, don't cut yourself!

STEP 2: Unsolder the Old Cable

Make a notice of the circuit inside, write down where the color and the white cable was.
Then unsolder the old cables and remove them.

STEP 3: Solder the New Cable On

Solder the new cable on the circuit, like the old cable was soldered.

Close the headphone and glue it together.

STEP 4: Test Your Repaired Headphone.

You're finished if it works!
If it don't works, then unsolder the new cable and buy a new headphone. Or test another cable.

7 Comments

tillu676 6 years ago

thnks for this info. i will do this

PierreG1 7 years ago

This is earphones, not headphones. Please clarify, Thank You

slider388 14 years ago

So where can you get new cables?

bakn90 14 years ago

For example in an electronic-shop, like radio-shark (or in Germany "conrad" or "reichelt"), eBay or in the supermarket (very cheap earphones).

k_man93 14 years ago

 you=lifesaver... its so simple, but i would have never thought of it. thank you x500 

jacob5680 14 years ago

 One note would to be very careful when soldering directly to the speakers. I've had a few earphones go down the drain because I got them too hot and caused damage.

Ironmagician 14 years ago

Good instructable. But I think they are called "earphones" ,not "headphones", headphones are the big, 70's looking phones that are like a couple of sepakers pressed agains your hear(i have ones :D Yay!) My headphones are always getting loose cables, I didn't have soldering gun so i used duct tape.It worked!(for barely half a week...-_-). Now I bought a soldering gun and I'm going to open them up!(i mean...I spend 30€ on them...Buying another ones? No way, they're probably going to get messed again...