[Todd Madson]

Cross posting this here from the Tower forum:

You know the stereo 1/8" miniplugs that are pretty much ubiquitous
in stereo speakers these days?

There is a plastic base, a metal shaft and on top an extension.

Well, I was unplugging the speakers to move the cable and the
extension part of the plug is still inside the jack.

If you look at the rear of the machine it looks like a functional
jack but the plug I removed is missing about half a centimeter
and you cannot plug, say, a set of headphones in there since it
only goes halfway-in.

So the extension of the plug is still in the jack.

Anyone have any experience on removing something like this?

Unfortunately, I suspect the jack is soldered to the G5 motherboard.

Ideas?

[MaxPower]

I had a simlar thing happen to me with a CD player. The metal is rough where the pieces snapped off. So I put a minuscule amount of superglue on the end of the jack and put it back in the headphone hole, waited 10 mins and was able to pull the glued piece out.

Mind you, this was on a crappy CD player so I was willing to chuck it if I screwed up. You might be better served by actually biting the bullet and having an Apple service rep take care of it for you.

[Todd Madson]

Yeah, I have Applecare so I might just have them address it. Urgh. Superglue = scary.

[macgeek2005]

Magnet. Put a magnet up to the computer, and the piece will get sucked out. I did this to remove a loose screw from an unaccesable part of my Mac Pro when it arrived.

[mrpatton]

The same exact thing happened to me recently w/ an 1/8 inch getting stuck in my headphone jack.. if you did try the superglue technique, did you have any success?? any other suggestions on how to fix this problem?? unfortuntately i dont have applecare.. so any feed back would be much appreciated.