How solder to very fine enamelled woven wires in earphone lead?

I caught the niece and nephew wetting the game cartridge contacts with their saliva to make the game play. (yuck!) One look inside the console revealed the resultant corrosion. MCM sold replacement connectors at that time. You should have seen my nephews face when I had his console stripped! I also noted the joystick connectors had cold joints on most of the pins.

So, you could try this easy/lazy/can't be bothered way and see how it goes

David

OMG! Buy a new pair of headphones!

OMG! NOT if the old ones are still serviceable! NEVER let it hit the ground!

Valley Girls? More like IM freak. I was watching one young lady IMing yesterday and it was pretty much shorthand for words, like u and b4 and y not and etc. A really good way to ruin the english skills of the younger generation.

On, I think, the Leno show the other night, they got a couple of IM kiddies off the street, and two Morse Code operators that they'd hired, and did a contest. They had two tables at opposite ends of the stage, and they set a code guy and an IM kid at each table, and at one table they had two identical messages, and the deal was, "Which is faster?"

Morse Code won. :-) :-) :-)

Cheers! Rich

Well, after he's done screwing around with that horrid wire, the box will be hanging around his chin anyway. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Valley Girls and soldering irons, a curious mix.

RL

In North America, cables are described by their application class, UL Style number and construction.

As the wire that interests the OP is likely of Asian design and origin, it may be described somewhat differently.

Stranding count, gauge, serving style, core and jacket material would likely be required to fully describe flexible cable for consumer audio applications.

It's an interesting thought, though; just what off-beat permutations and combinations of events would be required for a Japanese manufacturer to label something with a North-American colloquialism associated with decorating material or dressmaking. Metalic threads were not unknown in centuries past, so they'd likely have their own terms for round or flattened varieties.

Last 'tinsel' wire I saw was in mono earplug leads, a la 1965. Biggest problem was normal conductor surface contamination from outgassing insulation, with age, and the further contaminating effects of burning core material at soldering temperatures.

RL