Frayed 'Phone Leads

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 18, 15 November 1929, Page 28

Frayed 'Phone Leads

An Efficient Treatment NE of, the minor annoyances to which the radio amateur is"subjected is that of the persistent fraying of the cords of some makes of headphones. The trouble occurs particularly at the junction of the cords and the metal connecting tips. Phone leads which have frayed in this annoying manner generally deve_lop more serious troubles, for the fraying of the outer covering of.the leads gradually extends, with.the result that the fine flexible strands of wire becoine exposed and eventually break. A good method of nipping this trouble in the bud is as follows. Procure-a few odd lengths of ordinary bicycle valve tub: ing, and carefully work a piece of it. over the metal tip of the phone legs until ‘the frayed outer covering is concealed. In this manner any further fraying will be stopped, and phone cord junetions which are treated thugs may be kept in good condition almost indefinitely. '