It is fun putting a ridiculous effort into such things.

I suppose that if you were stranded on a desert island and absolutely had no access to a new jack and somehow had access to your tools, you could come up with something. Saw away part of the plastic, and shove some twigs under the leaf contact. That's assuming that there are twigs on this island, of course.

I just dug through the trash, got out the dead jack and nicked away at it with some side cutters, destroying some plastic and freeing the two ground connectors.



Yowza -- need glasses -- ok, it is possible to take it crudely apart and reassemble the thing. Spring tension restored, contacts back in place and the shard of plastic miraculously snapped back into place, it works and requires some force to break the previously weak connection.



What a great way to kill an hour and a half. Doug might recognize the pink background.