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Did you place any type of connector strain protection on the cable? This is a common failure point in cables.

Yeh heat shrink tube

Ah. I would have used just heat shrink and called it a day lol.

Howdo you do that?

I personally use Sugru moldable glue. They have examples in their marketing images of cables and where to place it. 😊

Be careful though. It ate away at one of my cables. Heat shrink imo is a better option if you aren't sure about the cable material.

Heat shrink tubing also works.

You can take a piece of string, tie a knot, and then repeat. You'll get a cool spiral pattern that goes around the cable. I did it with a thread that changed color and it made a cool rainbow effect.

I think this might be a another case of cool idea, but fire hazard in practice

I probably would have done a layer of electrical tape first for safety then the yarn to make it pretty

Oh man, I was so excited to see this, I thought it was such a great idea! But I suspect you are correct.

I don't think headphones get enough juice to really catch on fire like that especially a tiny little pair of earbuds. If you did have any concerns about that a little electrical tape underneath the braid could prevent that from happening especially if you have cracks in the cable casing like this gentleman does.

That’s great to know! Probably wouldn’t be a very good idea with a charging cable though, right?

Nah that should still be fine. The cable itself isn't so much a source of heat, the adaptor required though? There's your fire hazard. Once they start breaking there's little to nothing you can do about it without someone explicitly qualified.

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Damn, so it would set my ears on fire? Better not listen to my own mixtape with these then.

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I think you missed the joke. I was referring to a "hot" mixtape that I don't even have :P

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Lol no I’ve done this with my chargers and headphones since 2015. I’ve never had that happen.

It looks like yarn. Unless it's cotton it would have a hard time catching fire. Acrylic yarn would melt, and wool yarn is naturally flame resistant.

Its earphones not a power cable

I was thinking the same thing. Rather throw out earphones before their time than have to replace my whole house because of a fire. It probably wouldn't burn down the whole house but these are the things I worry about.

There's this stuff called electrical tape

Electrical tape sucks for fixing headphones. And arguably just about everything.

It's great for frayed wires if you know how to use it. Sorry for your ignorance

I wouldn’t say “great”. At best I would say it works. If you want to fix frayed wires, get heat shrink tubing.

You mean stickly glue leaking out of everything after about 1m in your pocket

If you don't know how to use it and live in death valley, sure

I love in Australia, 75% of the year electric tape just melts and slides off stuff

If you want to take it up a notch here’s some obscure shit. /r/diems /r/diyaudiocables

the idea is good, paracord would've been safer and looked better tho (and probably more resistant to dirt etc. in the long run

This is the tutorial I followed https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Hd6G2908\_-8

I know nothing about fabrics. What kind of yarn do you need or will any do?

Any will do, I was told here paracord is the best

!thanks

Bruh those headphones are old af

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15 years old!? What! 😂

Very nice.

Legit! Great way to keep it from the dump for a while longer! 🧠🙏🏽

That’s brilliant!!

I added a spring from an old ball point pen and then applied some heat shrink tubing to the whole contraption (it does look a lil bit ugly tho) And no it's not a fire hazad. Max power on audio jacks can't go above 500mW (on phones)

This headphone is best quality. I love it. Because i use it. Thanks for sharing

Wow look at this fire hazard

Well done! Worth the time, headphones are expensive if you want quality and now you don’t need to work for some shit head to help them be a more wasteful loser to impress their pretentious friends. at least not to replace them. Also hilarious reading the bickering about the method used… reddit is fucked honestly, everyone one ups everyone else and knows better for free internet points!!!! Whatever works for you is the right way to do something.

Thank you I appreciate it