[BoyElroy]

There must be some sort of psychological pathology to describe my fear of walking around town without my Ety 4s to keep me company. I broke one of the transducers by accident last week and I'm waiting like a drug addict for the replacement driver to arrive. Meanwhile, every trip outside becomes a nail biting "do I really have to go out" neurotic excercise.

I know that I need help, but paying $80 for a new transducer seems cheaper than professional therapy.

I also broke my Panasonic CT470 at the same time. Argghh!!!!!!

BTW, that "$" sign in the header is a totally random typo. Kind of ironic, though.

 

[Maxvla]

wow that certainly is a problem.

i guess you got the parts overnighted?

 

[BoyElroy]

I'm supposed to be out of town right now and I had Etymotics ship the unit to my office so now I'm screwed. I'm going to try to sneak into the office after midnight tonight and liberate it.

 

[Maxvla]

hahaha.. definately an addiction if you are sneaking into the office after hours for parts.

 

[Duncan]

Can't say i've heard of anything like this before...

Bad luck BoyElroy...

Can't you get someone from the office to drop the package by your place, to save you going out??

 

[BoyElroy]

It's a small office with only about ten or so people. If they know I'm in town, I'll have to report in for work. I'll have to go in wearing a disguise or something.

The Ety people were great, though. I can't say enough good things about their customer service. They've replaced two cables and another broken transducer under warranty so this time around I told them I was going to pay to replace this one. I just gave them the wrong shipping address

 

[Duncan]

Purely out of interest BoyElroy, how did you kill both the ETYs and the PCDP?

I guess its something that you won't be doing again in a hurry anyway

Good luck with getting the assembly.........

 

[BoyElroy]

The metal edge of the subway car door reached out and for no reason smacked/punched/kicked my backback (containing both the Etys and the PCDP) as I tried to beat the closing doors. Boy, do I feel stoopid or what? But you're right, this is not something I'll be repeating anytime soon.

 

[Duncan]

Your thread has cursed my own ETYs now

I probably need to change one of the filters, after getting it wet... but am going to hold out another few hours... just incase the filter in here will dry out...

In the UK ETY filters are hard to get hold of

 

[Pepsione1]

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Originally posted by BoyElroy I also broke my Panasonic CT470 at the same time. Argghh!!!!!!

What's the pcdp not doing or doing incorrectly? I just busted mine this week (dropped it 2 feet above the ground) and i started getting the F15 error. It scared me at first but then I took out my handy precision screw driver set and fixed the problem.

 

[BoyElroy]

Hi Pepsione,

The piece that broke was the all important-but-infinitessimally-small plastic bracket guide that the metal transport screw goes thru. The plastic on one side broke off and its much too small to glue back and without this end piece (or piece of the end piece) the transport moves too much for the lens to track the cd. Its the one thing I can't really fix on the darn thing.

Luckily, I gave my wife a Panasonic CT570 a while ago and I'm going to try to bribe/steal it back from her.