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Dust in IEM; DUST!!!
Topic Started: 13 Nov 2006, 09:28 AM (897 Views)
Larry
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Anyone can sugguest any way to remove dust inside IEM? i am currently using sf5p.

thnx ^_^
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scanfiend
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Are you talking about dust inside the driver housing? If so, you normally can't get at it unless you crack open the driver housing - something which I do not recommend you to do.

Unless it somehow affects the sound, there's nothing much you can do about it.
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zonalblitz
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Do you have the 'squeeze' blower thing (Air Bellow), usually use for clearing dust on camera lens.

It can be found in camera shops and colour labs.

Allow the bellow tip to cover half of the single bore, squeeze to flush dust/ear wax out from there. Do the same for the 2 bores on each side of the earphone.

To clear earwax/dust within reach around the bores, use the cleaning tool provided.
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Larry
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do u mean that the camera bellow will blow ear wax or dust out of it?
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sukasuka
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in hopes to blow the dust out.
short of opening it up and cleaning, there's nothing much that can be done.
In a land where anything goes...
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Larry
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i have an idea... using a vaccum cleaner with a small tip and stuck everthing out... as blow air in to blow dust and ear wax out might make it worst.. they might stuck inside.... this is how i feel...
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ahdui
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theres a cool thing at challenger i found when i happen to walk around there during the weekends to kill time.

a USB mini vacuum which has the purpose of vacuuming keyboard.
might be good enough to do the job of sucking dust and crap out :)
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Larry
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ya... i saw that vacuum too at sim lim.. ;) but IEM don have any loss component inside right so izzit ok to use those vacuum that is use to vacuum the floor?? HAHA...
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ayeosq
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ahdui
Nov 13 2006, 05:12 PM
theres a cool thing at challenger i found when i happen to walk around there during the weekends to kill time.

a USB mini vacuum which has the purpose of vacuuming keyboard.
might be good enough to do the job of sucking dust and crap out :)

how much is that vacumm... where can i get it???
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I have a bad feeling with vacuum/negative pressure. Haha!
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Larry
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Nov 13 2006, 05:56 PM
I have a bad feeling with vacuum/negative pressure. Haha!

i don really get your meaning.. would u mind explain to mi?
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ayeosq
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I think he means that the vacumm is weak...
since its powered by a USB port...
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Larry
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i was think of using the normal vacuum and it is powered by wall power socket... hahaha! scare that later the filter also kana **** out... haha
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ayeosq
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dont worry about that...
I am using vacumm to clean my keyboard...
nothing really happening...
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Larry
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i not using for keyboard... i am using for my SF5P IEM... hahahaha!
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ayeosq
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i seee....
why not you buy a net to block the hole of the vacumm...
then even if ur filter get su3k up, you find it on the net...
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Larry
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and how am i going to put it back? haha
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Larry
Nov 13 2006, 09:59 AM
zonalblitz
Nov 13 2006, 05:56 PM
I have a bad feeling with vacuum/negative pressure. Haha!

i don really get your meaning.. would u mind explain to mi?

Anyway, I'm not confident of the vacuum sucking the dust out from your Super.fi, you will need a micro tube to safely **** things out.

And my concern is negative pressure will collaspe the driver. You might just **** things you don't want to see.
It's also very difficult to shift things without air 'push'.

In fact, i turn the Super.fi around and tap the driver with my fingernail. ;)

Give it a try?

P.S : What a censorship!
If impressing/being impressed is how it gets you around, forget it. It is not gonna happen.
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IMHO, just leave the earwax and build up itself till it gets big enough to roll out! lol wat a gross way. jkjk

i uses the earwax removal kit to clean the stems of my um2 (very narrow) and uses zonalblitz's method. Finally the traditional mouth blowing technique. do note to do it fast as to not let earwax fly into your mouth! lol
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Backup: AMB y-1 DAC (MisterX Mod)


Cycling: Sansa Clip 4GB→Philips SHS3200 Earhooks
Portable: Rio Karma→UltimateEars Super.Fi 5eb
Backup Rig: RedWineAudio 40GB iPod Photo→ahdui's CryoFreeze™ RBT IC→iBasso P3 Heron(ahdui Mod) →Custom Shure SE530
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Larry
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r u meaning that vacuum the IEM will spoil the driver due to the the vacuum power?
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Larry
Nov 13 2006, 06:45 PM
r u meaning that vacuum the IEM will spoil the driver due to the the vacuum power?

Please rephrase yourself properly next time, I nearly got lost in your words.. :P

What we all need to understand first is how a vacumn cleaner works.
It works by creating a low pressure area around the tip (nozzle) so that by physics of fluids, when there exists a difference in pressure within a fluid (here we refer to air), the high pressure region will flow towards the low pressure region so as to restore balance.

Hence a negative pressure means that the drivers may collapse inside the IEM and get pushed out or swayed about inside, due to the high pressure inside the IEM casing with respect to the low pressure region outside the IEM due to the existence of a vacumn cleaner. :lol:

Dont get it?

Simple. Dont vacumn it.
Just knock it as per zonal's suggestion.
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Larry
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i was saying take a normal vacuum cleaner(those use to vacuum floor). turn the vacuum "power" to the lowest. feel the vacuum "power"... first see how strong the vacuum power is then draftly estimate how far should the vacuum tip and the IEM should put a part. will this method work?
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