Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org 5 mo. ago

My earphones' cable has grown a pimple. It popped today.

Image on left is from 4 days ago, but the pimple was slowly forming over around 2 weeks.

The goop was sticky, not oily. Earphones are Panasonic RP-TCM130.

I was not able to find an explanation.
Something to increase cable lifespan, lubrication, rubber disintegrating, sweat and earwax that somehow got into the cable, dielectric grease, SCP-1407, no clear answer.

At first I thought the wires just somehow twisted. Nope.

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If you put the yolk into a cup of soil, you should have baby headphones within 2-3 weeks.
- You gotta be careful with baby headphones. If it's a boy, he'll keep the cord. If it's a girl, she'll loose her cord, and her teeth will turn blue.
- In some states, you're legally required to.
- That's how I grow my own chickens
Makes me think of that shitty grippy rubber material on cheap mice that becomes gooey with time. I would treat those as euclid until further testing
- Euclid??? The greek mathematician?
  
  Euclid-class SCPs are anomalies that require more resources to contain completely or where containment isn't always reliable. Usually this is because the SCP is insufficiently understood or inherently unpredictable. Euclid is the Object Class with the greatest scope, and it's usually a safe bet that an SCP will be this class if it doesn't easily fall into any of the other standard Object Classes.
  
  Source
Oh great, all the sound is gonna leak out before it gets to your ears.
- Liquid sound? Dethklok would like a word with you
  
  Fish metal.
- Happened to my mate, it sucks a lot tbf
High resistance in a wire inside the sheath would generate more heat at that point, causing the plastic sheath to melt/bubble. So if the wire inside the sheath got damaged, pinched or some of the strands of wire were broken.
- These are earbuds, not big ass speakers. There shouldn't be enough power going through those cables to do melt anything.
  
  You would be incorrect. If the power source shorts, it would heat the wires sufficiently.
- Doesn't explain the goop though
Some sort of chemical reaction. My best guess would be a drop of CA glue that degraded the material over time.
I feel like you maybe should replace those...
Sir, you are to remain in your present location until MFT Psi-8 makes contact. Any and all resistance will be met with force!
I am so intruiged by the fact that the mass of good accumulated at the one spot. The mystery of what pressures were at play for it to flow to that one spot.
Flux would be my guess
Extra warm conditions?
- Nope.

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