[clug] how to get a foreign object out of a headphone socket

[Bryan Kilgallin]

Tony:

> Heat a pin and push it in.  Let it cool and you might have enough grip 
> to pull it out.
> 
> One of the phone repair places at the Tuggeranong Hyperdome did that to 
> get a broken bit of plastic out of a headphone socket for me.

The problem substance is silica. Whose melting point is 1713 degrees C!

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