ear phone jack troubles?:confused:

[mudpuppy]

Occasionally, I'll be sweeping merrily along, and I'll notice that the headphones are not operating, so I have to pull out the jack, scuff it up on my shirttail, give it a lick, and plug it back in...Is there some sort of grease or something a fellow should use so the connection stays hot? Or do those jacks wear out after a while, and have to be replaced? I have the F70 with a right angle plug on the head phones, so it does get a lot of swivel action as you can imagine..my headphones are all busted up and taped together with a roll of athletic tape I got off a soccer field, so I either need to put the guts of them in differrent shells, or get a new set, and replace the female jack, what do you recommend? Oh, as of today I'm up to 2900 coins for 228.42
Mud

 

[ez4sure]

i would try a different set of headphones if the problem is in the detector why not send it to fisher let them fix it right. of course that would mean going without a md for a few weeks, you need to take a little time of so we can catch up on the coin count lol good luck with it let us know how it goes hh

 

[ramer]

Radio Shack and perhaps other places sell a product that is used for cleaning electrical contacts. It comes in a spray can and will not short out electrical circuits. It is really handy for when you have a noisey volume control or other potentiometer type of control. The noise will be gone instantly after spraying it and moving the control knob back and forth a few times. If you suspect your headphone jack has dirt or other contaminates in it just spray the hole for a second or two and put the jack in and out a few times.

 

[Sven]

Might just be a solder connection inside the plug broke, so if you tug or push on the plug cord and it starts to work. Might be the problem, happened to me

 

[MarkCZ]

Start with the electrical spray cleaner, but I wouldn't spray it into the headphone jack hole, I would spray it on the plug until its dripping a bit then while wet plug it into the jack, twist it, plug it in and out a few times.
Then remove the plug and spray some of the cleaner onto a soft cloth and wipe the plug with it twisting.

That should take care of the problem at least for a long time.
I have also sprayed the cleaner on a Q-tip and reached in the headphone jacks and swabbed the jacks contact ends, but it is possible to leave some cotton fibers in the jack, I never had any trouble but its possible.

Mark

 

[mudpuppy]

Thanks fellers! Its not broke Sven, just loose or dirty, although you gave me the idea of replacing the shells over on the mod forum. I'll give it a good cleaning like Ramer and Mark suggested. EZ, I'm not sending this unit anywhere, I need to find some gold like you got! Its not all the time, just sporadic, once a week or so, I hate the thought of missing a target due to a plug malfunction!