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It was during a normal usage and no brute force/abuse was applied. Just took it off my head. I guess it was 3 degrees Celsius outside and this is just plastics, so maybe that’s why it broke. Anyway, could you please offer some advice on how best to repair these. Thank you.
Well, one metal plate, four screws and a little bit of silicon later they are as good as new =)
I’ve created replacement to 3d print ;) Since MS don’t sell just headbands :/ https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:497183… I hope this will help some of you guys ;) Edit: Previously I’ve pasted the wrong link, now it’s correct ;)
Wojciech Kasperski and Mathias Grundtvig Andreasen you are awesome!The solution I used was pretty similar — I wrote a short article on fixing my Surface 2, it’s in Russian, but you can use Google Translate to get the idea.
Still, I don’t recommend my solution — it’s lifespan varies between several months (first time) and several weeks (last time) — the replacement band always breaks in time, no matter what.I will try your pieces and report on the result. Thank you so much for doing this!
For anyone having this issue, I’m trying an alternative solution with 3d printing and double sided tape. Looks a bit cleaner than above solution, but I don’t know yet how durable it is.
For more information, check out thingiverse (of course it’s free): https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:492050…
Mine was a lot less pretty but a lot more permanent. Took one of those metal pieces that hold back curtains on the wall, flattened it, drilled some holes, cut it, bent it to an arch, put it in the broken headphone band, drilled holes in the top of the band and boom.
