On Friday, January 22, 2016 at 3:15:26 PM UTC-5, Look165 wrote:
I suggest :

Laptop off , put another socket inside the plug (a "normal" one).

Since the plug is endless, the tip of the other will fall somewhere in
the laptop.

Then open and pick it up.

Kenny a écrit :
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

I dunno, I have seen quite a few with closed backs. But that is a good idea if it is not. And with your method, if it works, it is VERY important to find the end and not have it rolling around in there. Hopefuly the construction of the thing will allow that.

If it is closed back, if that can be accessed it might be possible to melt a hole in it and then use a paperclip to push the piece out. In fact I think the paperclip would be used to make the hole as well.

I remember people breaking off an RCA plug in their TV and with the open back jacks would just push another plug in it, and it would work. However, once the thing gets moved it can travel and short something out if it didn't right away. Saw a $300 signal board turned into scrap over that.