How the hack do I cut this cable???

[Laniakea]

I have fix my headphones but the cable is just too compact and hard to cut, there's 5 cables going in it and I had cut its end by biting it, really. I only have the tools shown in picture, help. (and my finger to show the scale of things) 

[Oshino Shinobu]

Have you tried using the cutting edges at the base of those pliers?

 

Side cutters is what you really want to get a clean cut though. 

[Laniakea]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Have you tried using the cutting edges at the base of those pliers?

 

Side cutters is what you really want to get a clean cut though. 

As I said, I don't have any tools. I'll try that and chew through the cable ?

[mariushm]

ffs find a razor blade (ask your father if he has one of those old style shaving razors instead of those 2-5 blade stuff) or use an exacto-knife or whatever is called (those things with blade made of multiple segments which can be broken off when they're not sharp anymore).

Or find a screwdriver and a pancil sharpner with removable blade and unscrew the blade.

 

Or go to the kitchen and find some kitchen knife you don't need anymore or don't care that much, use some paper tower or some cloth (something that doesn't conduct heat easily, as a tip maybe consider wetting cloth or whatever) to hold the knife in your hands while the knife blade warms up over the fire for a few seconds and then when the blade is hot you can drag the blade across the diameter of the cable to melt the plastic insulation .... make a ring across the cable and then pull on the sleeve and it should come out.

 

The wires are insulated with an enamel which is sensitive to heat, so you can simply have a blob of solder on your iron tip and stick the end of the wire into the blob of solder and the insulation will strip.  Alternatively, find some matches, light a match and quickly move the insulated wire about 2-3 cm above the flame then wipe the wire with some paper towel to remove the carbon from the flame.

 

Your soldering iron is shot to hell, all that black stuff is oxidation that would block the heat from your iron tip... get your iron tip hot and then use some paper towels or something to rub the tip and remove that crap, then put some solder on it and leave it there after you disconnect the soldering iron.. the solder on the tip will prevent the copper under it from oxidizing in air (the heat accelerates oxidation and oxide blocks heat once it forms)

 

 

 

[Laniakea]

I got in anyways, thanks guys <3