On 22/01/2016 10:25, Kenny wrote:
Acer laptop with combo headphone/mic socket. The tip of a 3.5m stereo jack
has detached inside the socket and it's cutting off the speakers. If I put
the headphone jack with the missing tip back in the headphones work. It
was
either a poor quality plug or the socket gripped the plug so tightly it
pulled the tip off. Problem now is getting the tip out of the socket
without damaging it.
This is not an easy laptop to dismantle, I recently fitted an SSD and it
was
awkward work. Been wondering if I put a dab of superglue on the end of the
plug, push it in the socket, leave it for a while to set then pull it out
will it bring the detached part out with it? An obvious pitfall is that
the
whole plug would then become lodged in the socket!
Any ideas anyone?

Kenny Cargill

Superglue in tight spots , goes where it wants to go, not where you want
it to go. Find the utube video of dismantling it , enough to get a
needle or something in there to prize it out, from inside the laptop