My earphones' cable has been oozing sticky goo for over a yer now

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think it’s infected. You better take them to Dr. Dre.

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  • sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Who?

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ya’ll forgot about Dre!?!

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    • And009@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dr Who isn’t that kind of a doctor.

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    • turdburglar@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      mike jones.

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    • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not a medical doctor. As such.

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  • binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Beat me to it.

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• TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You clearly left out the main thing anyone would need to troubleshoot this issue… what kind of music are you listening to. Obviously low quality music will wreck headphones no matter how good they are.

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  • Kissaki@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Music so touching, it brought the cable to tears.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Skrillex actually.

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  • Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    probably Psalm 69 by Minstry, I made the same mistake in high school, my headphones didn’t leak anything, but several lesser demons briefly manifested. I just went back to listening to White Zombie, and it all calmed down.

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    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Liar! Blasphemer!

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  • flubba86@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cbat.

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  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Grime

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• baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Given that:

  1. The statue of Mother Mary cries;
  2. These earphones are weeping;

  You are witnessing divine signals from heaven above, and can charge people money to make the holy trek to witness your hallowed earphones.

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  • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its Jesus’s earwax!

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  • brax@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wasn’t the weeping statue just sewage?

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    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t really appreciate your blasphemy

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• whaleross@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think cancer treatment will be more costly than a new pair of earbuds or whatever your next cheap accessory that is leaking unknown chemicals.

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• QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bro just clean your ears bro

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• axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  what does it taste like

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  • Kissaki@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Like honey

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• atomicorange@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If it’s leaking from the inside, it may be that the polymer never properly cured and is still liquid on the interior. You could try returning it as defective, or just shell out for a new cable

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  • Hypocrite9554@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Shell out he says

    These look worse than knock off iphone 4 buds

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    • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hot take: They’re IEMs, so they’re garbage nonetheless. For a proper soundstage, over ear open- or semi-open-backs are the only way to go.

      That said, I understand the need for a smaller headphone if you just need something playing in your ears during exercise or at work, which is perfectly fine so long as you’re not making them your primary pair of headphones.

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• pewpew@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s just going trough puberty

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• AndiHutch@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh boy!!! Just what I was looking for. How much for a pint of certified organic cable syrup? Can you guarantee it’s less than 1% earwax by weight? If so I can go as high as tree fiddy.

  My usual source on FB marketplace is playing hard to get. They said ‘I know what I’ve got and I won’t take less than a dub’. What a scammer LOL. Unless that syrup is gold plated I ain’t paying 20 bucks for a pint, smh.

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• Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This happened to the outer rubbery (soft plastic) housing on my bike U lock. For like 10 years it was great, then one first-ride-of-spring I grab it, and it’s like the entire thing was dunked in a pot of honey.

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  • klemptor@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Rubberized coating does that eventually, especially if the ambient humidity is high.

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• purplerabbit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ok, so, A. Buy new earbuds. And B. Don’t throw them away, give their “body” to science, I want a full autopsy of these.

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  • Tikiporch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, but slightly cheaper earbuds so you can also buy an xacto knife to cut these bad boys open.

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why would you still use them after the first day you knew this was happening?

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  • Patches@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Op is why we have safety labels like “Don’t inject bleach”

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• toomanypancakes@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I'll give you a nickel if you lick it

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    "If I had a nickle everytime someone wanted me to lick unidentified goo from someone, I’d have 10 nickles and a weird aftertaste.

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• random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We live is corrosive atmosphere.

  When rubber and plastic run out of antioxidants they will disintegrate or turn in to a slime.

  When using recycled plastics, this a real wild card. The levels can wary wildly from batch to batch, so even the manufacturer doesn’t really have clue, only occasionally tested minimum level.

  Pristine shit can be used more for planned obsolesce.

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• nicerdicer@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s a Spotify Leak /s

  This reminds me of the old Apple Macbook chargers where the cable was permanently attached to the charger itself. These cables became brittle and discolored from white to yelloy (they looked like they have been in a heavy smokers’ household when exposed to UV light, which is always). When I tried to fix the brittle cables with tape, it got worse and probably due to a chemical reaction between the material of the cable and the sticky glue of the tape they completely disintegrated.

  Your headphones are beyond repair. It looks like they have been exposed to some chemicals. Did you at one point in time clean them with perhaps an aggressive cleaner (toilet/ household cleaner)? It could be possible that some cleaner got inside the cable through a micro-crack in the cables’ insulation and reacted with the copper inside.

  You should replace them. The ooze is probably not healthy.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Are your headphones sucking out your ear wax or something? What the heck even is that gunk? 😮

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I thought of that at first, but that got too far down the cable now. I also tried to put hydrogen peroxide on it which seems to foam a lot with earwax, but had no visible reaction to this goo.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As others have said it is the rubber breaking down

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Send them to their resting place, they’ve done all they can

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thats the sin leaking out.

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• original_reader@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I also had this once.

  This might be the answer: integraudio.com/why-headphones-cable-sticky/

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is AI slop?

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It is absolutely slop whether a human or AI vomited those words onto the page. So much fucking repetitive filler.

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• orochi02@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You Deal w ts for over a year???💀

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• Jaded99@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s that xxx site youbkeep visiting

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• dumbass@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s lived past is expected use case a set of headphones should be, this is reality bleading though your headphones.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It is the era of device

  Get something newer as overtime the older rubber like materials tend to break down.

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• lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If it’s anything like the Aliens movie, then it’s a droid.

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The vital essence

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• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would try two things.

  1. heat gun the goo a little (get it up to like 150F or so) and see if it the sappy liquid runs and you can maybe clean it and drain it easier at temp 2)get some shrink wrap to seal up the ends. That might help for a while if you can get it tight.

  I’m not familiar with those headphones but sometimes manufacturers will put grease or goo inside the cables to reduce straining and folding of the wires.

  It looks kinda like rosin in the photo. I wonder if something inside the device was saturated in rosin and its just leaking down the cable?

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I gotta question.

  Is badge502 on Lemmy?

  Ah well. He’s been giffed.

  Image

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The door paint in my last flat did this if you hung damp clothes over them.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve had cables so this after ten (five of I left em in the car) so maybe they’re a touch old?

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• Quills@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Whaa, a follow up on the pimple headphones!? Ouch, yeah that looks even worse now, crazy that you kept using them even after all this time, yeah, that looks like replacing time indeed.

  If it didn’t sound like a possibly very unsafe idea I’d say i wonder how much it would degrade and how would it look if you sealed it on some kind of bag and left it there for a very log time haha

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