Input jack now only works if I input the plug half way in?
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:43 pm
Hi,
I was playing my electric (uke) today and suddenly slowly lost the sound. Then I was trying to get it back, I realized I can get sound if the plug is only halfway in to the input jack. But it doesn't stay in that way, so...
I took the jack out, to see what it looks like... it has two lines (soldered to terminals) going in and inside the shaft of it there are two "hook"-like bent-in metal plates. It appears that I can get a sound connecting to either of the lines coming in, and when the plug is halfway in, it only touches one of the hooked metal plates. (Also it seems that the tip of the guitar cord plug is the active part, and the shaft is not.)
Help! What gives? How does this thing really work? How do I fix it? I could bend the metal plates either way, I tried bending them tighter, didn't work, tried loosening them didn't work.
Thanks in advance!
I was playing my electric (uke) today and suddenly slowly lost the sound. Then I was trying to get it back, I realized I can get sound if the plug is only halfway in to the input jack. But it doesn't stay in that way, so...
I took the jack out, to see what it looks like... it has two lines (soldered to terminals) going in and inside the shaft of it there are two "hook"-like bent-in metal plates. It appears that I can get a sound connecting to either of the lines coming in, and when the plug is halfway in, it only touches one of the hooked metal plates. (Also it seems that the tip of the guitar cord plug is the active part, and the shaft is not.)
Help! What gives? How does this thing really work? How do I fix it? I could bend the metal plates either way, I tried bending them tighter, didn't work, tried loosening them didn't work.
Thanks in advance!