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Shure E2c repair help

post #1 of 5
5/21/10 at 10:36am
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Hi all! My first post here and I must say, what a nice forum!

 

Right, so I have a pair of Shure E2c IEMs which I would like to repair. They are out of warranty already, so it really does not matter what happens. I have a pair of Shure SE310's, so all is good.

 

The shielding covering the signal cable has come off right at the base of the earpiece. The ground cable is also all over the place at that section. What I want to do is open up the casing which shields the driver, so I can access the wires soldered onto the driver so that I could resolder the cables. The problem is, I can't get the casing open! I know that they are not meant to be opened, but is there any way I could accomplish this task.

 

Here is a picture of the cable of where it is broken.

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/8283/p1080524.jpg
 

Here is a closer picture of the earpiece. Yes, I cut the earpiece away, because as I said, I want to resolder at the driver, not mid-wire.

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/4719/p1080533.jpg

 

Does anyone have any ideas how I could open this casing?

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post #2 of 5
5/21/10 at 9:58pm

Hi Tizmo!

 

Before my SL6 IEMs I had a Shure E2C and I had recabling problems too. I succeeded in opening up the case with a sharp knife. I put the cutting edge between the two pieces of the earphone body and moved it until it went a little inside, after that I put the knife to the other side of the earphone and repeated moving the knife until the case got apart. You should be careful though, because it could crack. The part which holds the cable can crack to two pieces, but don'T panic, it could be glued together easily.

After recabling comes the tricky part. I isn't an easy task to put and glue the two part back together. IIf you use a wucik glue you should put only tiny amount of that between the two parts or the glue will flow to the membrane of the driver and messes the sound so the earphone will be useless (happened to me, when I recabled them the 2nd time). SO just be careful.

Hope I could help.

 

Regards, Lampee

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post #3 of 5
5/22/10 at 1:11am
Thread Starter 

Thank you very much for the reply, I will try that!

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post #4 of 5
5/23/10 at 10:52pm

Even when out of warranty, Shure will replace IEMs for a fixed price. Maybe your time and effort is in long supply...

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post #5 of 5
5/26/10 at 8:20am

Someone suggested on a Shure 530 repair thread to use hot air (blow dryer/hot air gun) to loosen the glue that they use.  They suggested going slow is better.  I don't know if the E2c is glued the same way, or the suggestion even works, but might be something to consider.

 

In other IEM repair threads, the suggestion was to re-use an Apple iBud cable or some other IEM to donate the cable (after reading lots of these threads, it seems finding good cable for IEMs is a bit difficult.  Suggestions are to use 28, 30 or 32 gauge *stranded* cable.  Sounds like the more strands the better.  But a lot of the cable out there in this category has stiffish insulation.

 

-john


Edited by ccfoodog - 5/26/10 at 8:25am
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