[GTALUG] ot: headphone jac replacement?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:13:52PM -0400, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
> Will seek out a handyman then.
> As explained, this is the equal to my computer monitor, with the machine
> very difficult to replace.
> Since the headphone jack gets allot of  activity, and extends out of the hod
> of the machine, after several years of my moving the headphones several
> times  a day, I am not surprised.
> happened once before  in 2015 or 16.
> My personal engineer just tightened it, no chemical smell recalled, which is
> why I thought a small wrench could tighten the nut itself.
> It sits beside a comparative jack which, if one uses an audio patch chord
> allows one to record the  information onto external audio media like a
> cassette tape.

Makes me wonder if a short 3.5mm extension cord would be worth adding
so you can leave it attached all the time, and plug into the end of the
extension instead, and hence move the wear to that location instead and
spare the poor old machine itself.

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Len Sorensen