On Jan 24, 5:34*am, "Gareth Magennis"
wrote:
"(PeteCresswell)" wrote in message

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Has anybody got a technique for replacing the plug on, say, a set
of iPhone ear buds?

I've tried this in the past and failed because the wires are so
fine.
--
Pete Cresswell

I found the biggest problem was tinning the fine wires, which are insulated
with some kind of coating.
To melt this coating you need a VERY hot soldering iron.

Hmm I just did this repair to some head hpones. In my case the
tinning was easy, just a regular tin/lead solder and it burned off the
insulation just fine.
(I've got a bunch of male-male 3.5 mm patch cords and so I made the
new end of the head phones into a female plug. Not exactly neat, but
it made the strain relief part easy.)

George H.

Once these fine wires are actually tinned properly, you can just solder them
onto the plug as normal.

Gareth.