A little help please... Broken adat cable

[vintagelove]

Hi, thanks in advance for any help. I had the tip of an adat cable break off inside the jack. What can I do to get ot out, or should I just replace the part all together? I am taking it to my tech tommarow, I was hoping to get a little info before I left. Thanks

[dale116dot7]

I'm assuming you're talking about the ADAT audio cable. It's optical so you'll probably have to replace the whole cable, unless you have replacement ends available. You can't solder fibre-optics, though there is a specific way of splicing it - that's what they do if they need to service the stuff in the phone system.

[PlugHead]

Originally Posted by charlesaustin

Hi, thanks in advance for any help. I had the tip of an adat cable break off inside the jack. What can I do to get ot out, or should I just replace the part all together? I am taking it to my tech tommarow, I was hoping to get a little info before I left. Thanks

Do you have a very thin pair of needlenose pliers? I'd try getting inside the jack to see if you can grasp the broken bit (after unplugging it from AC!) and try pulling it out.

If you pooch the jack in the process, you'll be no worse off - you can replace that next if it goes south in the process.

My .02 c