Extend the life of your broken Maono AU-MH601 headphones with this one easy-to-use device
An intuitive solution to a common problem that all Maono headphone users will eventually face.
So, an earphone snapped off your headset, you are out-of-warranty, and you've decided never to buy another pair again...before you throw them out...read the following!
The Maono headphones use a specific type of adjuster which connects the earphone to the headset. This design has been in use for several years and isn't solely used by Maono. Other brands use this exact same design. It turns out that there is a flaw in this design that every customer will have to deal with sooner or later.
The image below is what my Maono headphones looked like after about one year of ownership. Due to a defect in manufacturing, the left earphone had snapped off from the headset adjuster and the headphones were now totally unusable. I contacted their tech support and asked them if I could get a replacement, however they asserted that I was out of warranty and that meant I was out of luck.
Being rejected by Maono after asking for a new pair of headphones wasn't the only frustrating issue. Both of the earphones were still functional and worked perfectly. So it wasn't like they were totally useless, they were just totally unusable. I didn't want to throw them away at this point, so I thought, "why not see if I could glue them back together?"
And that's exactly what I did...except that lasted for only one week before they snapped off again at the same place as before. If you look at the image below, you can see some artifacts of glue covering the metal and plastic area where the break occurred.
Now I started to get frustrated. Here I had a perfectly functional set of headphones that I already temporarily fixed before they snapped again, but the only problem is I needed to find a more permanent solution for keeping them attached. After starring at the connector and cycling through endless configurations in my head, I eventually envisioned a design that just might solve my problem.
When someone accidentally breaks an arm or a leg, the protocol is eventually to apply a cast, or a splint to their injury. You need to immobilize the separated bone so that healing can occur. Taking that idea and applying it to my snapped Maono headphones led me down a multi-month product development cycle of trial-and-error.
With some basic 3D modelling skills and a 3D resin printer for testing prototypes, I began working through different designs that would mimic the function of a cast. This headphone cast as shown in the image above is the 11th version of that idea. It consists of two rails that fit the contour of the connectors, a clip which fastens and tightens the grip of the rails, and finally a clamp which locks that position. Once you apply the clamp, the headphone cast immobilizes the separated earphone and headset. Nothing gets detached now.
So, now a pair of snapped Maono AU-MH601 headphones is a temporary problem that is easily corrected. You don't need to fool around with any type of messy glue solution. If your Maono headphones have snapped off like mine did, I can send you my headphone cast by first-class mail. They cost a lot less than a new pair of Maono headphones ($46 brand new on Amazon), and you'll be extending the use of your headphones until wear-and-tear really makes them unusable...which could be years into the future.
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