Tip of 2.5mm shutter connector is stuck inside the jack - Canon T3i Rebel

[donatoaz]

Hi guys, this is my first post

I was building an arduino shutter control to make time lapses and I, unfortunately, bought one very crappy 2.5mm plug that when I first inserted into the camera left the tip stuck inside it.

Does anyone have an idea of how I can go about removing it? 

Best regards,

[ebiggs1]

Wow, no I don't.   This may well be best done at a service center if you can't get a hold of it at all.

[TCampbell]

Eeeeeuuugh!  There's nothing you can grab onto with jewelers pliers, etc? to pull that thing out?

If the camera is under warranty, you want to send it in.  If the camera is not under warranty... you still probably send it in.

I do happen to know that there are tear-down instructions on the Internet (because astrophotographers will disassemble the camera to remove the factory IR filter and replace it with one more suitable for astro-imaging.)  But this sort of thing WILL void your warranty.  It's one of those "proceeed at your own risk" and "if you break it, you get to keep both halves" kind of things.

[ebiggs1]

Yes, it is pretty easy to turn a $500 camera into a $500 paper weight.  

[RobertTheFat]

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@donatoaz wrote:

Hi guys, this is my first post

I was building an arduino shutter control to make time lapses and I, unfortunately, bought one very crappy 2.5mm plug that when I first inserted into the camera left the tip stuck inside it.

Does anyone have an idea of how I can go about removing it? 

Best regards,

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If the tip is hollow, you could dip a piece of wire into epoxy or cyanoacrylate glue and then insert it into the tip. Let it dry and then carefully pull the wire to withdraw the tip from the socket. If it fails, you'll probably have to send the camera in to have the socket replaced. But that's what's going to happen anyway if you just send it in without trying a repair. It's very unlikely that the repair shop is going to waste time trying to pull the tip out rather than replacing the socket. So the do-it-yourself attempt costs you nothing, and you just might get lucky.