I feel it's about time I made a thread for my headset, because it's getting quite hilarious. Basically I refuse to let this thing break, it's somewhat of a tradition at this point.
My headset is a Logitech G930, It's a great wireless headset but tend to be a bit finicky when it comes to staying in one piece. So this post will now be a log of the repairs I've done on this thing.
9th August, 2011. Purchased Logitech G930.
23rd August, 2011. Battery life is a bit crap. I did a little hack and attached an external battery.
24th July, 2012. My glasses have torn apart the standard faux leather ear pads however, Logitech don't sell replacements. Tritton headsets have a similar shape however, managed to hack some Tritton AX Pro pads onto it. Foam too, upgrade!
21st Janurary, 2013, Microphone broke, taking it apart and reseating everything seems to have fixed it. Had to damage microphone in order to repair it so it's now held together by stickytape. Plastic bracket attaching bucket to arm also broke, glued it in place.
11th September, 2013. Arm supporting the left bucket cracked, had my dad fashion a metal rod and glued it in place.
27th October 2013. Purchased a smaller replacement for my external battery hack
14th February 2014. Earlier glue in Jan 2013 failed causing headset to fall off my head onto a hard floor. Mic boom snapped off, plastic bracket attaching bucket to arm shattered. Bought a broken G930 off eBay for £20, replaced left and right plastic bracket, removed mic and soldered in new one, replaced top, left and right pads.
1st February 2015. Headset is buzzing in left ear constantly. Took it to SockSevens and after disassembling it problem ceased.
9th February 2015. The cable I used for my battery hack has worn out due to the flexing of the headset. I'll need to buy another one.
10th February 2015. Got home and headset started buzzing again. Took it apart and noticed power line is extremely close to audio line which could be causing interference. Used electrical tape to insulate it, it seems to have worked.
The tale of Azelphurs headset
19th June 2015. After a Skype call I tried to push the mic upwards as normal and it snapped off. Glued it back on again
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Haha, this is epic.
I bought a Rocketfish brand USB headset from Best Buy that was on clearance for something like $10 at the time. Unfortunately, it was an impulse buy, and when I went to read the reviews on it after getting home, it turned out that a bunch of people had complained about the earpieces breaking off within a month or so (in most cases… the longest period of time in any of the complaints was 6 months). Since I got it for $10, I decided that it wasn't worth the effort to return it.
A year and a half later, it finally did break (I guess gamers in the USA tend to be jerks who throw their hard-earned money – read: “parent's hard-earned money” – against the nearest wall/floor/monitor every time they get pwned) while I was stretching it to put it on my fat round head. Well, I paid a lot of hard-earned money for that damn headset, so I grabbed one of those grocery store loyalty cards they give you to put on your keychain, cut it in half, and glued it on either side of the plastic headband as a sort of super-glue splint. A few months later the same thing happened to the opposite side, and I repaired it in the same fashion.
I ended up using that broke-ass, $10 headset for another 3 years until I stopped gaming. Two months ago I found it while packing to move, and the super glue that had been holding it together had gotten extremely brittle and it came apart in my hands. Since I hadn't planned on ever gaming again, I finally gave up and threw it away. If I had known that I would end up putting together a gaming controller that would allow me to get back into gaming, I dare say it would still have been cobbled together on my head today, 8 years later.
I bought a Rocketfish brand USB headset from Best Buy that was on clearance for something like $10 at the time. Unfortunately, it was an impulse buy, and when I went to read the reviews on it after getting home, it turned out that a bunch of people had complained about the earpieces breaking off within a month or so (in most cases… the longest period of time in any of the complaints was 6 months). Since I got it for $10, I decided that it wasn't worth the effort to return it.
A year and a half later, it finally did break (I guess gamers in the USA tend to be jerks who throw their hard-earned money – read: “parent's hard-earned money” – against the nearest wall/floor/monitor every time they get pwned) while I was stretching it to put it on my fat round head. Well, I paid a lot of hard-earned money for that damn headset, so I grabbed one of those grocery store loyalty cards they give you to put on your keychain, cut it in half, and glued it on either side of the plastic headband as a sort of super-glue splint. A few months later the same thing happened to the opposite side, and I repaired it in the same fashion.
I ended up using that broke-ass, $10 headset for another 3 years until I stopped gaming. Two months ago I found it while packing to move, and the super glue that had been holding it together had gotten extremely brittle and it came apart in my hands. Since I hadn't planned on ever gaming again, I finally gave up and threw it away. If I had known that I would end up putting together a gaming controller that would allow me to get back into gaming, I dare say it would still have been cobbled together on my head today, 8 years later.
Edited by Matt - July 15, 2015 04:09:18
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