Smittysrv From United States of America, joined Jan 2008, 8 posts, RR: 0 Posted (4 years 4 months 2 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 7064 times:
I went out to the hangar yesterday and found a 10 year old stereo headset that was replaced by a newer model long ago. I felt like a kid again riping it apart. I salvaged the rubber grommets and the volume control and drew out a schematic of the original wiring before taking the electrical harness apart. I went to Fry's electronics and bought some long heat shrink rubber tubing and nothing else, mainly because they didn't have any of the other stuff I was looking for! Unbelieveable!
Here's what it looks like, minus the mike being attached to a "around the neck and over the ears" wire headset. The volume control is a real necessity for this headset! The all you have to do is plug the earphones into the phone jack plug. http://smittysrv.com/images/headset.jpg
Pilotpip From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 3014 posts, RR: 13 Reply 1, posted (4 years 4 months 2 weeks 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 6938 times:
Cool. Sounds like way more than I'm capable of pulling off but you managed to save yourself a few bucks.
If you elect to go on to an air carrier you won't be able to use it. Most have something about a TSO'd headset in their ops spec.
SCCutler From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 4884 posts, RR: 32 Reply 3, posted (4 years 4 months 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 6822 times:
By God, this looks pretty sharp.
I did the Headsets, Inc. ANR upgrade to an old DC headset I had around, and it works great, but yours sure looks a doozy.
Keep us posted long-term!
...three miles from BRONS, clear for the ILS one five approach...