"N_Cook" wrote in message ...

On 04/03/2016 20:07, Gareth Magennis wrote:
Hmm, this might be a problem.

Have come across a couple of cases now where a cheap jack plug has
become stuck in a Neutrik combi socket.

http://www.neutrik.com/en/xlr/combo-i-series/


It looks like the cheap jack plug tips are not quite as rounded as usual.
This means that they get stuck fast in the Combi, though they work just
fine in other jack sockets.


If you force them out, the tip of the jack will just not get past the
connector, but instead will just take it with it and destroy it, or the
jack tip becomes separated from it's body and is left embedded in the
Combi.


Not good.





Gareth.







Or is it like the more common problem of tips , 2.5/3.5mm jacks stuck in
headphone sockets, due to lack of strong metal these days in the neck
part, preceeding the tip, to resist normal contact forces?





No, I have first hand experience of putting more than one of these cheap
jacks into more than one Neutrik Combi and them getting stuck, after
removing 3 that had got stuck via a customer.

On another occasion a Focusrite pre-amp had a tip stuck in the socket.
There is a small hole in the back of the Combi where you can insert a tool
to push out the jack, but there was no way it was going to budge without
damage.




Gareth.