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I got them this last Christmas and I broke them around 2 months ago when my mom told me my dad had a cancerous brain tumor. I dropped them on the hospital ground when she told me and the swivel part broke. The chord is still attatched and they still work but the one side hangs by the chord inside the headphones.

All that pressure on such a tiny plastic part - for shame, Sony, for shame. What a terrible design. I bought a replacement swivel part on eBay but once I disassembled the headphones it was clear that unless you cut and splice that wire, and who knows how many tiny little wires it contains, it is for all intents and purposes impossible to remove the broken part and install the new part. That’s when I stumbled across this page. I fixed my headphones by holding the broken side headphones in an aligned, “neutral” position, and by then drilling two tiny holes through the opposing swiveling parts. It was not too hard to maneuver a small hand drill with a very small 1/16” bit coming at the parts from the earphone side. The holes were drilled parallel to the direction of the headband. I then sanded all the faces with a bit of 100 grit sandpaper, slathered 5-minute epoxy on the faces, and ran a few simple stitches through the holes and the walls of the swiveling parts, and pulled/tied them as tightly as I could, drawing the sanded faces together into the epoxy. Space is tight in there so I used a small curved upholsterer’s needle, a pair of pliers to pull the needle through, and some very strong V-92 sailmaker’s thread that I happened to have lying around. (It’s similar to upholstery thread; not particularly thick but quite strong.) The epoxy cured quickly as I did this and the stitches provide a little bit of extra structural support fairly near the outer edge of what had been the swiveling parts, so, they’re in a place where they can minimize any twisting effect of the headphones on the repair. On reassembly the faceplate completely covers the stitches, and even though the threads are sticking out a bit they don’t misalign the faceplate at all. Except for the loss of the swiveling function, the repair is invisible except for a thin line of epoxy on the inside of the band.

Hi guys I have this problem, if you undo the screws, remove the metal plate and snapped off piece and then cut away on the other end of the snapped piece (thays still attatched to the headphones) untill it’s pretty much flush then scuff each surface you can just super glue the ear piece back onto the band, it’s the only solution I can find, I’ll update you if it doesn’t work but it looks alright just means you lose the pivot function, but with the big squashy earpads I think the fit shouldn’t be effected as long as you superglue it flat! (Once you do this though there’s no going back

I opened the area up where the swivel piece is located and super glued it. I worked all of 2 hours before my son dropped the headphones and the broke again. The part I need is specific to ordering it…Really simple to repair, I just need the part. You might be able to go here to order the part. I’ll check tomorrow to see and provide my results here. https://esupport.sony.com/US/p/model-acc…

Good fix Jaz. This isn’t a spam link - it shows very clearly how to drill through the two broken pieces with a 1.5mm bit (I think a 1/16” bit would work in the US) and use two of the casing screws to hold the broken pieces together. No glue, thread, or soldering.

It’s not that simple to repair the hinge, as soon as you remove the screws you’ll see that the wire is direct connected to it with no option to disconnect unless you disassemble it all

you can’t. what I did to keep them functional is a shotty zip tie job

Do we have any solutions for a broke college student that doesn’t have any power tools available?

What I did and has held up for at least 6 months now is to tape round the swivel, pushing the two broken parts together and then leaving a gap at the top. Make sure it’s in line and slowly fill it with gorllia glue. No the headphones won’t be able to swivel again on that side but it hasn’t made a difference to their use, the other side swivels and that’s enough.

Hi. Mine did not break at swivel. It actually cracked between exterior screws where the model number is displayed as if screws were fastened too tightly. I purchased a new bracket to replace left and only outside bracket that holds the earpiece. Will I have problems removing old and simply basically screwing on new bracket onto earpiece and in tact swivel? I mean this is the latest model and I notice plastic thin covers on the inside of each side of each “fork” that holds ear piece. Please tell me it’s an easy fix….

Had the same problem. Completely replaced the plastic hinge system. It now has a metal swivel (plus one extra degree of freedom). Would’ve cost me a quarter of the headphone MRP just to replace the broken swivel. Instead i got this done in 10 INR.

There is an excellent video on YouTube about the same Link: https://youtu.be/DVKypArMB30

I solved this by using a needle & heavy duty thread such as upholstery thread and simply tying the 2 pieces together by feeding it through the hole where the audio wire goes through multiple times, it secured both bits as well as kept a decent amount of swivel in the joint and you can’t even see that the headphones were even broken!!! Hope this helps

How do I fixy left side siwel portion

Me too, this has happened to both the first Sony headphones I had and now the second ones I got after the first ones broke. idk why they keep breaking in the exact same way agh, I cellotape it together when I want to put them on but that’s still not very good because they usually still fall apart again when they’re cellotaped

Mine just happened! Can I fix it with a glue stick? Have nothing else

Hello everyone. I broke that %#*@ hinge twice, and repaired it twice. Than a week ago my gf broke BOTH hinges at once. And I gave up. These earphones’ mechanical design is a total crap. I believe Sony made this poor cheap design intentionally because any amateur on a glance could tell you it’s not going to survive for a long time. Tiny plastic swivel part either wears out to its death in a couple of years just because this Universe invented friction thing, like my 1st time it broke: I walked on the street and suddenly…, or breaks if you just look on these headphones too strictly: 30cm fall for them is deadly dangerous. How I fixed: I disassembled ear (took off earpad and removed all the screws I see), soldered out two wires of speaker (be accurate, they’re very short). Than I removed all the screws in headrest slide mechanism, fully retracted it and removed. Each ear hinge has a wire inside. To remove it you’ll need to solder out all 7 (or 9, I don’t remember) tiny wires from headphones’ PCB and put away one long elastic cap, and two more tiny ones. Than you’ll need to carefully remove this wire using these holes and some sort of hard but dull pin. After it you’ll have access to the Hinge. I had this hinge’s head broken. First time I built it up using super glue (cyanoacrylate) with soda: this high-tech is widely covered in Internet. I made some sort of tiny mold out of plasticine and layered it several times with glue-soda-glue-soda. Having enough I let it cure for a while and then processed it with sandpaper and fine file to make a proper form, and finally drilled a hole for a wire in the center of it. Assembled in reverse, soldered. It worked perfectly for a year. After it broke the second time, I bought spare part on Avito (our eBay clone): https://www.avito.ru/moskva/audio_i_vide… , 1500 RUB (~25 USD w/o delivery) and replaced it instead of repairing, with the same procedure of assembly. Sorry for my English being far from perfect. I hope I helped someone to fix that osteoporosis guy, finally sell them on eBay and buy some more decent product.

Only way is to superglue them. Or replace the speakers cups and rewire everything. They make them cheap so they break always in that area. Wish they used metal instead of rubber plastic

3 ways to fix these awesome sounding headphones !!

  1. No glue or soldering iron required : https://youtu.be/DVKypArMB30.
  2. soldering iron required : https://youtu.be/PJ1X-CbX29Q.
  3. soldering iron and super glue required : https://youtu.be/fnBbyw9bG7k. Enjoy!!!

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