oddbehreif
New Head-Fier
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Update on my situation.
Having given up hope of fixing them, and working under the assumption that they were already broken, so if I broke them worse it wasn't really a huge deal, I decided to proceed in an attempt to fix them. When the cuff detached it left a swivel plate on the inside of the 'band' portion of the headphone, that is the inside of the control panel area with the volume up and down buttons etc. The swivel plate is connected to the 'band' portion of the headphone by two cylindrical knobs mirroring the track forward and track back buttons. The swivel plate WAS connected to the speaker cup by two cylindrical knobs mirroring the volume up and volume down buttons. This is where my speaker cup came detached from the 'band' portion of the headphones.
On the speaker cup there are two holes where the knobs would normally fit. It is a very tight fit, meant to keep the cup from being able to detach. I decided that it would be easier to remove the swivel plate from the 'band' portion of the headphones, and attach it to the speaker cup first. I did this by placing a small flat head screw driver next to the track forward cylindrical knob, and twisting. This successfully popped the swivel plate out. I then connected the swivel plate to the speaker cup. Using a flat head screwdriver I then bent the swivel plate just enough to pull one side out of the speaker cup, so the hole for one of the 'track forward, or track back' knobs was visible. I placed the hole over the corresponding knob, and then pulled the screw driver out, allowing the swivel plate to retract back into the speaker cup. I then did the same thing on the other side, used a flat head screwdriver to bend the swivel plate. This bend allowed the diameter of the swivel plate to shrink just enough so that I could fit the hole in the swivel plate back over the track forward knob.
I know this is a poor description of what I did for anyone who cannot see the inside of the headphone. However hopefully if anyone else experiences this failure, my poor description can help them to fix their beloved headphones.
Thanks for the info - I know more than just one or two people who struggled with this particular problem.
I'm actually trying to do the opposite - finding a way to disassemble the headphones without breaking anything. See, something has been knocked loose somewhere inside the right side, and aside from the annoying rattling sound, the sound volume from the right side appears to have dropped about 40%. Honestly, it's driving me mad. Do you think you could give me any pointers on this, since you know what the interior looks like?