Best metal-metal glue

Anonymous

I snapped my headphones off in my laptop at a fit of rage as the connection was being crap.

Basically it broke off between the two little rubber bits leaving part of it in my laptop and part in my hand.

Having read the internet, my thoughts are to try glueing them back together and pulling it out, soldering (too much effort, bit risky) or to prise it out with some modelling tweezers.

So, 1st things 1st. What is the strongest, metal-metal glue?

Has anyone else done this before, and can they help?

Cheers!

brianonyx

Chemical metal r god old araldite would be my suggestions.

tim_wand

Welding or in this case soldering. IME so called metal to metal glues dont work.

sungod

to extract the bit stuck in the socket, if you can reach it and get a grip with fine tweezers then that's ok, but if the end is hidden inside it's likely you won't get a good enough grip

putting glue on the other end and putting it in the socket is a good way to make things worse

i'd open up the laptop to expose the socket and then use something like a needle to push the broken piece back out

Anonymous

Tim - my worry would be that if the solder dripped, i'd be totally screwed as it would ruin the inside of the socket. Also, will it stay molten long enough to make a bond?

sungod - its a macbook (old black one). I have a fairly good understanding of the inside of a PC (built my own a few years ago) but no idea what to expect if I pull the case apart for a laptop and further still, a macbook.

Can you go back in the opposite direction to prod the broken bit of headphone out? Also, what are the dangers of me rendering it FUBAR while undertaking this myself?

mudcow007

sungod wrote:

to extract the bit stuck in the socket, if you can reach it and get a grip with fine tweezers then that's ok, but if the end is hidden inside it's likely you won't get a good enough grip

putting glue on the other end and putting it in the socket is a good way to make things worse

i'd open up the laptop to expose the socket and then use something like a needle to push the broken piece back out

+1

what make an model is the laptop?

i might be able to google-fu a disassembly for you

Here

or

Here

Anonymous

black macbook - purchased april 2008

Anonymous

sweet. Cheers guys. I was just a bit worried about f*cking the whole laptop up (I have this effect on.....everything).

Will get on it this weekend

capt_slog

Is the 'pin' of the plug hollow by any chance? Just wondered if you could twist a tiny wood screw into it and get a grip on it that way

Anonymous

Cheers Capt - will get the bike torch in there to have a good ogle.

fast as fupp

http://www.ifixit.com/Device/MacBook_Pr ... Early_2009

have a look at this. macbooks are fairly easy to work on

The Ors

I've taken a couple of iBooks to bits. Not that difficult, find the relevant 'HowTo' and just make sure you lay everything out neatly in order as you go. Perhaps take some pic's as well. I think the headphone socket appears fairly early in the stripdown.