Previously posted in mildly interesting a year ago, doesn’t qualify anymore: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/18714104
Probably disintegrating, I don’t know. But now I’ll finally have to buy new ones. Currently there’s 6 oozing points in total. 3 are minor, one is now inactive (the 2024 pimple), one I taped over, but it’s starting to overflow, and one near the jack is major.
I now cannot plug them in without getting sticky residue everywhere. Also the rubber on the outside is starting to crumble a bit.
I am a cheapskate, but this may be their end.
I would try two things.
heat gun the goo a little (get it up to like 150F or so) and see if it the sappy liquid runs and you can maybe clean it and drain it easier at temp
get some shrink wrap to seal up the ends. That might help for a while if you can get it tight.
I’m not familiar with those headphones but sometimes manufacturers will put grease or goo inside the cables to reduce straining and folding of the wires.
It looks kinda like rosin in the photo. I wonder if something inside the device was saturated in rosin and its just leaking down the cable?