i stepped on my porta-pros this afternoon and snapped the hinge the earpiece swivels on. any thoughts on how i'd go about fixing this?
Many of the more pricey headphone brands do spare parts, might be worth emailing them and asking. Can you remove the pin bit? if you can you might be able to stick it back on with epoxy and strengthen it by drilling through it and putting a pin in. I stepped on my 'phones once too, I was no amused. Moriquendi
maybe leave them littering about on the desk instead of on the floor? Or are you all walking around on your desk?
xD For the OP, I'd try and follow Moriquendi's advice. But if it's broken on a point where it'll be hard to fix, I doubt you'll get it back to how it was (strength-wise). I personally own Steelseries Siberia's and I got a small hinge where I hang them on so I won't ever step on them.
It is possible to repair the broke plastic. You will need: Devcon High Strength 5 Minute Epoxy Glue or ZAP Z-Poxy, there the best and strongest epoxies i have ever used, plus they dry in minutes. small drill, 1 or 2mm drill bit Paper clip Wire cutters, and tools to disassemble the headphones. Super glue aswell Because from what i understand there is a plastic stud that has snapped, which allowed for rotation. remove the stud, and bond it in place with super glue so it aligns up perfect as if nothing ever happened. Now the fiddly bit, because the break is now weak, i now ask you to drill a hole down the centre of the stud into the other part, deep enough to fit a straighten paper clip into each side. if you can get the paper clip to bridge both parts with a depth of 5mm each side of the break, then you'll be laughing. mix up the epoxy, coat the paper clip and force into the new hole, wipe any excess off, and once cured for an hour trim the paper clip down so its flush with the plastic and then reassemble.
yeah, i misunderstood what you were saying the first time around and dismissed it as impossible, but i think this should work. thanks for the help guys, i'll give it a try. +rep for burnout, morquendi i can't rep you because apparently i already have somewhere else in the last couple days.
gah, burnout got here before me I did the same thing he suggested with an old pair a long time ago, they still work great
i'm in the middle of term papers right now, probably won't get around to trying anything until the end of next week. i'll let you know how it goes though.
alright, finally got around to fixing these things. the paperclip/epoxy thing didn't really work, there wasn't enough material there to get a good hold. so i took a hotknife to things and put the sound-producing part into a pair of nice comfy sennheisers that had stopped making sound. here's some pics: and the senns were closed phones, so i took a drill and opened them. i tested them a bit, they sound pretty decent, but the epoxy hasn't cured yet so i didn't want to play too much on them and i can't put the pads on yet. while i've got the camera out: i painted my fileserver bloo. though the flash make it look like a bit of a lighter bloo than it actually is.
Interesting color combination for a 300. Looks good though. Interesting way to fix those headphones too. I hope it turns out decent sounding.
no, i did it myself. it's not really as nice as it looks in that picture, the bezel especially has a lot of imperfections. now i've had a while to test out the headphones properly i can say that i'm pretty happy with the repair job, but the sound quality is not quite as good as they were before. it's somewhat muddled, i think i might have to drill a few more holes, the pads are too restrictive.
