John, If you have no de-soldering tools, try to get the solder out with wick, but if that fails, cut the jack apart and remove the pins one at a time.
I don't see any advantage to not using the headphone jack. Who knows, the new one may last forever. There is a finite chance of a future failure, but then everything in the world carries with it some burden of chance. We just have to be practical and take our chances. 73, Don W3FPR On 2/11/2011 12:18 PM, John Shadle wrote: > I think I finally might get to replacing my failed headphone jack this > weekend. Anyone have any tips for this little job? I recall that there > are more than a few pins to desolder. > > Also, does it make sense to not put stress on the headphone jack in > the future by plugging my headphones into the external speaker jack on > the rear of the unit? My headphone cable is plenty long to reach > there, and would rather not have to replace this again in the > future--as it seems to be the case with many folks. > > Thanks. > -john W4PAH > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
