I have a revolution 7.1 and have been reasonably happy with it (mic input never worked, but why use it when i can use the line in?), but a while ago a friend of mine pulled my comp out form the wall quickly and the speaker plugs that were in the output had a short cord, and well the plastic around the output cracked and fell off. I glued it back on and sanded it down because it stuck out too far for a good conection. Unfortuanately, the connection still is not that great it will sometimes crackle and one channel will go in or out.

I want to know if there is a relatively simple way to replace the plastic or 1/8 output on a soundcard. Website? Do computer techs / repair places do this kind of thing. Should I start looking for the warranty?
-thanks, any help would be appreciated.

anyone?

The jack would have to be re-soldered onto the board, that is, presuming the jack itself is not damaged.

Perhaps a small electronics shop could do the repair for you?

--jeff

Seeing as I'm not lucky enough to have a Revo, this is just a guess, but usually, the jacks are just standard parts available at most electronics part supply stores or partsexpress.com.

If you are fairly handy with a soldering iron, you should not have much of a problem.

and warranty isn't going to help with physical damage. Like they say though, they're very standard parts, and if you're handy with a soldering iron you could change it yourself or an electronics repair shop could do it with their eyes closed. Pretty simple affair.

well ive done extensive work with replacing pickups on my guitar, although i dunno if quality joints is my specialty ... looks like its time to dig up the 15w iron cuz 60 will do the opposite of fix the problem.

15W is inadequate. You can ruin the PCB with it, not to mention that you won't get quality joints. I've soldered such connectors with a 45W iron. Just don't heat the PCB for too long, or the copper layer might separate from the rest.

A 20W-30W iron should be enough for such kind of work. My 26W iron is.

You'll need a small Iron(20watts or so), which a skiny tip.
Also, to sucessfully remove the old jack, you'll must use a tool able to remove all the old soldering first(it is called "vacuum de-solder", or something like that).
Using both, will be much more easier to extract the jack itself..
Heat each solder point for about 2 or 3 seconds, then suck the melted metal using the vacuum tool.
A replacement jack can be easily found on old sound cards, some motherboards or even small audio players.
Since the soldering points are very small and the board is very fragile, you must be
very careful not to damage anything.
Radio Shack sells all material mentioned above also.
I hope it helps.