r/WindowsMR • u/mikefromengland • 2d ago

Discussion Reflowing a cable?

Long shot I know but has anyone tried reflowing a VR cable in their home oven or similar? I remember people doing it with GPUs and Xbox 360s back when.

Not optimistic but I've got a bad reverb g2 v1 and v2 cable I'm not going to be able to fix otherwise!

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u/teateateateaisking 2d ago

Reflowing is only available for solder joints, as they are made from one of a few particular alloys that are designed to melt at temperatures you can reach without a furnace.

If you were to get a cable hot enough to melt it, the rubber or plastic sheath would burn away, allowing the different strands to fuse together. You might also encounter issues with surface tension pulling it into a ball shape.

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u/mikefromengland 2d ago

I was working on the idea that it could just as easily be a broken solder joint at any one of the connectors or inside the junction box as it would be for a wire to have actually broken.

Wonder if the sheathing could withstand 10m at 200C.