As stated before, these are not copper wires that make the whiskers appear in the picture. That is before i did a reflow. Basically, their is some weird white ish stuff that is in the form of wire that is in the center of the copper wires for each wire. I dont know what it is, but I reflowed the right connection, made sure those whiskers made a connection and cut off the excess to make sure it didnt cause problems.
I think I am going to order the new connector online and when I receive it I will redo the connections. I think doing what I have so far has helped me get used to knowing what I need to do. I had put masking tape over the end of the wire that was unraveling, which I then covered with heat shrink, so i think I am going to remove that, apply heat shrink onto the original cable where their is still some sticky parts from the tape and use part of that to part of the wire that is covered in masking tape to expose the wire I will need to attach the new connector.
If you wouldnt mind, could you post a link from amazon of which connector I should get, I would prefer to have a few spare for future uses and in case I mess up with one and it has a too much solder in one place or another to be able to use.
EDIT: The use of masking tape was to because I didnt have heat shrink and regular tape was falling off. The masking tape actually hinders me from pulling the cover of the connector back much more than enough to fix the issues I was having. If I was to put on a new connector I have to either make that masking tape section thinner, which I figured I could do with heat shrink, or remove it and still have to put heat shrink over the new area so the cord doesnt unravel as I do the repair.
Edited by kenman345 - 12/4/11 at 12:06pm
