But coiled cables are heavier.
If the damage to the cables is mostly from being jammed in the door, it could make sense to get helicopter-stype coiled cables instead of straight ones – they are less likely to dangle and more difficult to jam.
Now that’s good to know. I’ll start looking for some.
Thank you Peter’s
Always willing to help – but perhaps Headset Services Ltd are more local.
Peter Mundy has a pilot shop – try him?
You can buy the cables new from David Clark or any David Clark dealer
“So why not buy a David Clark cable?”
Because the only ones that come up for sale care second hand ones.
And those ebay ones are what we have at the moment. The wires break inside the cables.
Those Ebay ones look nice
Why are they not robust?
You can buy the jack plugs individually and make up a cable using something heavier. Van Damme make all kinds of fancy and expensive cables, a lot of which go into the “£500 gold plated digital hifi interconnect” market 
but to be fair they are well made. I have used their heavy speaker cables for this sort of thing.
The only cable which won’t get destroyed by getting caught in a door is something steel braid protected under a sheath, like this
They are used in the robotic sphere, where the cables are constantly moved about.
If it was me, I would instruct passengers to look after the headsets, and if they can’t comprehend that, tell them their chance of learning to fly is around zero
So why not buy a David Clark cable?
All the cables are one piece and of the molded type. As are the David Clark cables but they are of far better quality and so much more robust.
Second hand David Clark cables come up from time to time in eBay and fetch about 20 quid.
There are plenty of cheap ones like this on ebay and other sights
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Replacement-Aviation-Pilot-Headset-Cable/202163360224
But they are not very robust and I would much rather prefer a to buy a good quality cable that would last as long as a David Clark one.
