{"id":136,"date":"2010-05-23T14:27:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T20:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georges.nu\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2012-09-04T19:31:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T01:31:22","slug":"fixing-my-macbook-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georges.nu\/blog\/2010\/05\/fixing-my-macbook-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing my MacBook Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">So, about a week ago the the plug from a set of headphone broke off in my MacBook Pro. Well, it didn&#8217;t really seem to break off, but more like the very last bit of the plug just the sort of came unscrewed and came off inside the jack. So, I had about 1\/4&#8243; of the plug stuck all the way down inside the jack. There wasn&#8217;t enough room and it was too deep to grab with a pair of tweezers or needle nose pliers. I was about to take the whole laptop apart to see if I could get to the jack from another direction, but it didn&#8217;t take long to see that I was going to have to completely remove the logic board, and even then it appeared unlikely that it&#8217;d be any use. So, after several days of reflection on the situation and a bit of googling, I came upon a solution that sounded better than sending my laptop in for a logic board replacement&#8211;a repair unlikely to be covered by my AppleCare. This is what I decided to do&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Take a large paperclip.<\/li>\n<li>Straighten it out.<\/li>\n<li>Wind a bit of electrical tape around it so that it would fit neatly inside the jack, leaving about 1\/8&#8243; of the paper clip exposed.<\/li>\n<li>Put a tiny dab of JB Weld on the tip of the paperclip.<\/li>\n<li>Slide the paperclip carefully into the headphone jack, being careful not to touch the insides of the jack with the JB Weld. I stood the laptop up on its side so the paperclip was perfectly vertical inside the jack.<\/li>\n<li>Let set for 6 hours.<\/li>\n<li>Gently pull the clip out with the broken off piece attached.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what I did, and it worked! 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