How would I remove a fly from HD800s?

[viper0700]

So Sorry! I'd written up a post on the 31st (the day I took the plunge) but I must not have posted it correctly. This is actually the third time I've written this as headfi failed to load today after I tried to attach an image...

Anyway back to the story, sorry but I got lazy and didn't contact sennheiser. I went for the pin option, using two pins to slice the moth into small enough pieces to suck out. Instead of a vacuum which scared me the moment I turned it on, I ended up sucking the the out with my mouth (gotta get them protein sups). For anyone wondering, moth tastes like you'd expect.

All in all it took about 3hrs, with the wings taking the longest as they were more difficult to break apart. In the time the moth had been alive it had also made a cocoon of sorts at the top edge of the diaphragm about as large as the moth itself (I didn't get an additional photo but it may be visible from my original images). This was the easiest part to remove as once I got a tiny fibre slightly out of the mesh I was able to pinch it with my fingernails and pull the entire thing out.

For anyone that has this issue in the future (who am I kidding, this will never happen again), I'd recommend NOT bending one of the pins as the angle required to get it into the mesh means it can't then hook and lift anything up to the mesh. Instead I'd just slice the thing into little pieces with two pins. Doing this meant I didn't actually end up touching the diaphragm or the plastic supporting it.

Sorry again for the delay and thanks to everyone for their help (basically thanks Mython), and jokes (basically everyone else but I'm looking particually hard at you wink). Here's an image of the weapons of choice, sorry but I didn't take anything else. http://imgur.com/DD784Yw

 

[Mython]

Nice image

 
 
anyway, your description gives a whole new meaning to the term 'moth-eaten'.
 
Glad you achieved some success.

 

[viper0700]

Nice image :wink_face:

I was spewin when the screen just blacked out on me, typing things like this on a phone is really freakin tedious.

 

[wink]

Obviously the moth hid in your HD800's and died of fright because it could not defeat godzilla......
 

 

[Syan25]

Question? How do you clean these without touching the metal gauze?

Because the stock cable is so hard to remove from its sockets, I had to apply more force than normal. As a result, the metal gauze got slightly grazed. Not a tear. Not a dent. Just a slight 5mm graze. Is that something to worry about? Would affect the sound reproduction at all? I know you have to be careful either that gauze but it's really badly designed that the sockets are SO close to the gauze.