Now almost every person has a gadget from which you can listen to music through headphones at work, and in transport, and on foot. It can be a USB player or a phone, tablet or laptop. And at home, many listen to music, wearing headphones, so as not to interfere with neighbors or family members.
Naturally, every music lover in his life was faced with the problem of torn ear cushions for headphones. It is quite possible to repair them with your own hands, if you know a few subtleties. There are different types of headphones: vacuum, with ear pads just made of foam or leather. In the article, we will consider different options for how to make ear pads for headphones with your own hands.
Foam Ear Pads
Let's start with a description of the most easily fixed problem. If these pads are made of foam, then you can do it yourself with the help of sharp scissors to cut out their replacement. To do this, you need a small piece of thick foam, preferably a dense structure. On the contours of old ear pads draw a circle of cardboard. This will be the pattern by which the cylinders are cut first. Then a small circle is cut with a blade on one side. Having bent the foam in half, the middle is scraped out.
Try to keep all walls the same thickness. Making foam headphone earpads with your own hands will take a little time, the main thing is to cut carefully, especially the inner ones, so as not to cut through the foam layer.
Knitwear
If you have torn ear pads, then they can be replaced with knitted ones. For needlewomen who know how to use a crochet hook, do-it-yourself earphone repair for ear pads is just a couple of nonsense.
Yarn is better to choose cotton or containing both cotton and acrylic. The hook is taken according to the thickness of the threads. Work begins with the ring, then a circle is knitted with the diameter of the headphones. This is an average of 8 rows, depending on the thickness of the threads. After trying on the diameter with the earphone, the knotting depth of the ear pads begins. To do this, knitting begins behind the back wall of the loops. One row is knitted evenly, and the next according to this pattern: decrease and single crochet. So do 2-3 rows. Then the tied ear cup is pulled over the earpiece and work continues on it. At the end, the thread is cut and fastened to the edge in the usual way. The second part for the earphone is similarly made.
For beauty, you can alternate the colors of the threads in rows, it will look very stylish.
Rubber bands for hair
On sale there are large, wide, terry elastic bands for black hair. This is a wonderful material that is used to repair ear pads for headphones with your own hands. To replace the torn foam products, it is enough just to pull the elastic bands on the edge of the earpiece so that the elastic material is on one and the other side. They keep their shape perfectly and do not jump off plastic circles. Simply and easily.
Knitted equivalent
Many fans of listening to music with headphones use knitwear to repair them, most often socks are taken. They are most suitable for the diameter of the plastic round parts of the headphones. It’s better to take warm knitted socks with unstretched elastic, because we will need it. Cutting off this part of the knitwear, we get a pipe 10-14 cm in size.
So that the threads on the cut do not pour in, they wrap it over the edge with simple cotton threads. On the other hand, the region has been processed at a knitting factory, so that the preparation for the repair of ear cushions for headphones with your own hands is over. It remains to roll inward one and the other end, pull on a circle of headphones.
Sound access is free, and soft knitwear is not annoying. Fast, convenient and affordable, this is suitable even for the most lazy listeners.
Sewing cloth ear pads
You can make ear pads for headphones with your own hands from fabric. To do this, you need a natural, non-irritating fabric, thin twine or ribbon, thread, a needle, cardboard, a simple pencil, compasses.
First you need to make a template on cardboard by measuring the circumference of the headphone. Then the fabric is laid out with the wrong side up and a small outline is outlined in outline for one and the second element. Around the contour, a circle must be drawn with a pair of compasses so that the distance between them is 3-4 cm plus 1 cm for the hem of the fabric. You can cut a circle from thin foam rubber and paste it on the inner contour of the cover. The edges are bent so that a rope can be inserted inside to tightly tighten the ear cushion. You can make edging from ribbon or lace. Put the finished product on the earphone as follows. First, a foam circle is attached, a large circle with a piping is placed on top of it. The earphone turns over, the rope is pulled tight and tied to a knot. The edges of the rope can be hidden inside the fabric or trimmed.
Leather ear pads
If you have torn expensive leather ear pads, then, of course, I want to return things to their original appearance. Here you will already have to try and choose materials suitable in quality and color to the original.
Now we will consider in detail how to restore such products at home. Let's start with the necessary materials: a compass or circle patterns - indoor and outdoor, a marker or crayon, a piece of thick cardboard for the template, scissors, a strong cotton thread and a needle. You also need to purchase a sheet of foam and soft skin or dermatin. You can use a piece of the old bag. The basis of the material should be fabric, so that when sewing, the seams do not break.
The first step is to measure the diameter of the earpiece. You can use as an old template, disassembled ear pads. Then, foam bagels are made according to the templates. By the same standards, the same figures are cut out, only from leather. It is necessary to leave a place for seams, therefore both inside and outside the bagel is cut with a lap. Workpieces are sewn along the inner circle on the wrong side. If there is a sewing machine, it is better to sew.
Then they turn it on the front side and sew a thin strip of leather along the perimeter of the big circle, having previously measured the circumference. This will be the depth of the ear pads. Then the foam bagels are inserted and finally sewn up with an internal seam.
Vacuum headphones
If you have gum torn, then the ear pads for vacuum headphones with your own hands can be made from an ear plug, shorten them a bit and make a hole in the center. It is easy and affordable.