God, I hate earphone wires! You would think after all this time someone would be able to figure out how to keep them from fatiguing and breaking? usually right at the molded rubber jack housing.
So I have an expensive Sennheiser noise canceling set where the wires have broken at the jack. Each "wire" is actually a bundle of very fine wires twisted around each other and a string-like fiber reinforcement strand. The fine wires appear to be lacquer-coated, like you would find in a transformer winding.
I am planning to trim back from the breaks and solder the three wires to a Radio Shack jack. I am wondering how to strip the lacquer or whatever the insulating coating is from the individual strands without breaking them or shorting them out.
Anyone have any experience or advice?