Where to get a 3.5mm plug rewired?

dluby

I have a pair of Sennheiser PXC 250 headphones and the wires going into the 3.5mm jackplug are gone dodgy.

Where would you recommend I go to have this replaced at a reasonable price and what would you expect I would be charged?

Thanks

New.White.Socks

I was going to post a similar thread so decided just to expand yours a little, hope you don't mind dluby.

I have a similar problem, where the wire connects to plug bit on my Bose earphones has become dodgy, working properly only when I hold it certain ways.

I saw a couple of (to be honest rubbish) 'how to's on rewiring headphones. In real life, is this difficult to do (having no experience). What kind of tools would I need etc. If it's not feasible, -insert OP here-

Cheers

New.White.Socks

Nobody know anything about rewiring a headphone Jack?

seamus

In reality it's quite easy, it's just pieces of copper wire soldered to the jack at one end and to the earphones at the other.

The earpieces and the jack will probably be sealed though, which makes it a good deal more difficult. It's really only fiddly more than difficult and you risk burning yourself on the soldering iron.
This is as good a guide as any: http://www.life123.com/technology/home-electronics/headphones/how-to-rewire-headphones.shtml

docmol

This is the connector : http://radionics.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=getProduct&R=0392649#header (pack of 5 for €7)
Radionics are in Crumlin, anyone who can solder should be able to fix this in 5 minutes or so.

cnocbui

5 minutes is being overly optimistic in my experience, but, yes, not really difficult.

meercat

would you not buy a 3.5mm lead and cut one end off(1.99 powercity)
cut your dodgy one off your lead
rejoin your lead to new lead with 5amp connector blocks
might not look too pretty but will do job effectively cheaply and easily

cnocbui

Headphone cables are often coaxial and would be too thin for such connectors. Much better to buy a plug from Maplins or similar and to just solder the new plug onto the lead after cutting the old plug off.

Like so: http://www.ehow.com/how_114206_replace-headphone-plug.html