Indeed the ring became loose, and this afternoon fell off all together.
i was getting stereo just find until the ring fell off.
what is loosekite?
your description sounds about right if the unit has a small keypad
attached to the front right.
Is there anywhere I could take the unit to get the ring reconnected?
Karen
On Tue, 20 Apr 2021, Don Tai wrote:
A 3.5mm audio jack will have a ring that screws into the cylinder part of
the jack. You plug you headphones into the jack. This ring is tightened
against the side cover. Has this become loose? If this has loosened, then
you could use some locktite to ensure it is tight.
An issue is that when the audio jack becomes loose, it might stress the 3
wires and stop working. Apart from the looseness of the jack, can you hear
the left and right channel audio?
Do you have a Xerox "Kurzweil Reading Edge Optical Recognition Speech
Synthesizer," 1992?
Don
On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 at 20:33, Karen Lewellen via talk <[email protected]>
wrote:
The thing about the other suggestions is that my personal experience of
blindness makes some of those steps a bit risky.
If I still have the external connector, its not broken, just came loose
due to how much I use it, why cannot I just screw it in place again?.
The port or jack is Entirely external to the machine.
Its a talking scanner that looks a bit like a portable well copy machine.
No idea if images exist on line but it is called the reading edge.
Kare
On Tue, 20 Apr 2021, William Witteman via talk wrote:
In that case, you could try to repair the broken bit with something
moldable like sugaru (sp?) or another moldable plastic, but I would tend
to
go with Don's suggestion, as those parts are generally pretty disposable.
On Tue., Apr. 20, 2021, 20:15 Karen Lewellen via talk, <[email protected]>
wrote:
Okay, this is why I love the list.
My description is clearly faulty.
What I am speaking of is the circle connector into which you plug the
headphone itself.
as if, had I a really small hmm wrench? twisting it the other way would
have kept the external port in place.
The internals worked perfectly fine, I just cannot plug in the
headphones because the external round connector is gone.
Does that make better sense?
Kare
On Tue, 20 Apr 2021, Don Tai via talk wrote:
A headphone jack usually has left and right channels, plus a ground, so
only 3 wires.
You will need to take the device cover off, determine if one of the
connections is loose/cracked. If the connection is loose or cracked
then
you resolder the joint and you're done. Check the connection with a
multimeter. If the plug is worn out you will need to unsolder the 3
connections, remove the old (may be physically attached to the
board/cover,
reinstall the new plug to the board/cover, resolder the 3 wires, check
connectivity with a multimeter.
You will need:
-tools to remove the cover: screwdrivers of all sorts, pry tool,
depending
on the cover. it does vary a lot
-soldering iron, solder
-replacement 3.5mm audio plug
-multimeter: to check if the soldered joint is electrically connective.
That's it.
Don.
On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 at 19:00, Karen Lewellen via talk <[email protected]
wrote:
I might add during the current lock down?
Here is the scoop
The primary device i use as my computer's speech synthesizer source
has
a
3.5 inch headphone jack, which has been getting looser over the past
week
or so.
While I had hoped to find a way to tighten it before a disconnect,
that
hoped was dashed this afternoon.
I do have the jac, in fact I have a spare, what I am wondering though
is a
couple of things.
first, if I want to try, or must try reattaching this myself, which
tool
do I need? screwdriver, or wrench?..or something else?
If I want it done by someone else, for which I would happily pay even
if
moving the machine might be a dance, where in Toronto might I take it
in
for the work?
In theory it is rather important, the replacement synthesizer is s
slight
fire risk, as its casing is broken around the plug in area for its
adapter.
Also, it sounds like it has a could, which may become frustrating as I
use
my computer rather a great deal these days.
Ideas?
Thanks,
Karen
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