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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
3.5mm headphone jack snapped off inside headphone port.
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<blockquote data-quote="joakimk" data-source="post: 1243649" data-attributes="member: 202971"><p><strong>Simple(r) fix</strong></p><p></p><p>Hi all!</p><p>I was googling this same problem, and considered trying the glue-and-straw fix. But first I bought a pair of very pointy tweezers at a beauty shop, to try to pick out the stuck jack tip. Looking inside, I could see the end of the tip has a "butt" sticking out, which I tried to grad and pull. But the tweezers were too big, so I could only graze the butt. </p><p></p><p>However! When I re-inserted the broken jack (the other half still connected to the cable), the whole tip lodged itself back in the jack, and I simply pulled the plug out in one piece!</p><p></p><p>So my contribution to this discussion is to use some metal object to (carefully) rough up the back of the lodged tip (while inside the headphone jack of the mac). If you're as lucky as me, you can then use the broken jack cable to remove the tip.</p><p></p><p>Guess you just need to be careful not to damage the headphone plug on the mac while you're going at it <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]15165[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joakimk, post: 1243649, member: 202971"] [b]Simple(r) fix[/b] Hi all! I was googling this same problem, and considered trying the glue-and-straw fix. But first I bought a pair of very pointy tweezers at a beauty shop, to try to pick out the stuck jack tip. Looking inside, I could see the end of the tip has a "butt" sticking out, which I tried to grad and pull. But the tweezers were too big, so I could only graze the butt. However! When I re-inserted the broken jack (the other half still connected to the cable), the whole tip lodged itself back in the jack, and I simply pulled the plug out in one piece! So my contribution to this discussion is to use some metal object to (carefully) rough up the back of the lodged tip (while inside the headphone jack of the mac). If you're as lucky as me, you can then use the broken jack cable to remove the tip. Guess you just need to be careful not to damage the headphone plug on the mac while you're going at it :) [ATTACH=full]15165[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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