[NJARC] Repairing tinsel conductor headphone leads

[Mike Feher]

Tinsel, enamel coated or bare is pretty fragile stuff and not easy to work
with. One can solder to it, and I have many times in my youth, till I got a
little smarter and tried a different method. After you are sure the tinsel
is free of any insulation, if it had any in the first place, what I do is
just leave it in place with the fibers in the center that gives it strength,
and then tightly wrap, closely spaced, very small tinned (or something else
you can solder to readily) wire around about a quarter inch of the tinsel
material. If you do not have access to small wire, you can get a strand out
of multi-strand wire and use it. Then, you just solder to the new wire you
wrapped around the tinsel leads. Then it will be easy to add an extension
wire on to your existing tinsel wires. Another method is to have a solder
pot, and with rosin flux on the tinsel wire, dip it into the solder pot.
That should tin the leads letting you to wrap the connecting wire onto it
and solder it in place. Have fun - Mike

 
 
Mike B. Feher, N4FS
89 Arnold Blvd.
Howell, NJ, 07731
732-886-5960
 
 
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Hi Lenny
What you have probably contains wires of different colors. Likely  blue red 
and silver. the colors are an enamel coating. you need to scrape the color
away 
using fine sandpaper. After you clean it you can then tin the wire with 
solder. the insulating fibers will burn away during the process. It is a a
little 
tricky, but a repair can be made.
Marty F.




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