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Plug Too Tight On IDX Pro

R

RLOH

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I got an IDX Pro late last fall and only got a chance to use it a couple of times before winter came in NE Ohio. I have two sets of phones, Ratphones and Timberwolfs. The Timberwolfs are my back up phones and I have not used them since the cord and plug were replaced under warranty a couple of years back. The first thing I noticed when I first tried the detector was how tight the Timberwolfs angled plug went in. It was extremely tight, but it did work perfectly once in. Yesterday I tried the Ratphones and though still tight, they were not nearly as tight going in as the Timberwolfs. They are both 1/4 plugs and the entire cord and plug on the Timberwolfs are brand new. Do I need a new a new headphone Jack? Do you guys think I could damage the jack by using the tight plug on the Timberwolfs? I have a spare cord for the Ratphones and they also unplug at the ear piece so I though I would just leave one cord permanently plugged into the detector. Any advice is appreciated. R.L.
 
I've got Rat phones and they fit fine on my IDX and MXT. If you check you will see the portion of the jack the phones plug into is a plastic. My guess is the hole is out of round. The tight fit won't hurt the jack. You could try running a drill bit the right size ( by hand) to ream the hole. Just do the black outer hole. Rob
 
Using the same headphones so it had to be the jack. I found a screwdriver with a shaft just about as snug as the headphone plug, inserted it just enough to still be on the inner body of the jack and not damage the metal contacts, then twisted it left and right several times with just the slightest of side pressure. That was enough to open up the jack just enough for easy plugging w/o looseness.

On two of them I had to get just a little more aggressive and an under-size screwdriver and fine sand paper so the fit was just snug, then only a few easy twists and I had a good headphone jack. When I id this I kept the coil pointed upward and used a vacuum hose to make sure small particles were removed.

On a couple of the back-up units I had I didn't bother with it because headphones still worked fine with the tight fit.

Monte
 
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