What part was that about?
And oh, sorry, the spring thing was actually mentioned in this very thread,
post 10.
bela555: But once I bought a logitech g403 headset.... it was a really bad decision. Really bad and cheap plastic quality.... I was very careful with it, never dropped or put it down hardly... and after half year it broke at multiple places around the screws....really poor design.
Depends on design to know whether they can be glued back too. So far been relatively lucky with headphones, first Philips, bought in late 2004 or early 2005, no issues under the warranty period but then broke on one side in 2008 but could be glued back together well enough, then broke again more nastily in 2010 and glue wasn't quite a viable option anymore due to how they broke, so even though they had no issue whatsoever in terms of functionality otherwise I replaced them with these SteelSeries ones and they're at 6.5 years old now. Broken and glued back quite a few times (but not within the warranty period), and there are some positions on the volume that make them only work on one side, but so far all the breaking was in ways that glue could fix quite well and without making them uncomfortable and there weren't times when just moving the volume a bit up and/or down didn't fix the other issue yet, so holding on to them.
Actually, having decent experiences with Philips. Monitor 9.5 years old, still just fine, speakers probably not much newer (but don't have the purchase date anywhere anymore) and only quite recently I noticed that one tends to stay off at lower volumes, hair clipper some 12 years old, granted only used a few times a year but still just fine when it is used. Pity they don't make gaming mice. But then again, all of these things are old, no idea how their newer stuff is.