[proud2deviate]

The title pretty much explains it. I just removed my E4Cs, and despite my best efforts managed to lose a small soft flex sleeve deep in my left ear canal. Bah. I got it out, after about five minutes of shakey-handed digging with a pair of small needle nose pliers. Yikes! Now I'm all paranoid. This is not an experience I'd like to repeat, especially considering I probably got lucky this time. I damn sure can't afford a trip to the emergency room to get a stupid piece of rubber out of my ear (but then I can't very well afford to have a piece of rubber lost in my head until I can afford the ER trip.)

I try to de-grease the sleeves when I notice them getting a little slidy on the nozzles, but I'm obviously not doing enough, considering I just washed these last Sunday. Is there anything I can do to get these to say put better (on the nozzle, not in my ear.) Relatively non-permanant is prefered for now, so no super glue, please. I'm thinking of something like a little bitty hose clamp, but I don't think they make them that small.

 

[Etrips]

How are you taking them out? That is the key

 

[Jahn]

IEMs bbbrrr........

 

[cotdt]

i never had any problems with the E4c or any other IEM, but if you're having problems with them then logically you should go full-sized cans.

 

[nfusion770]

I had this happen once- the first time I tried comply tips on my e500s. I immediately put the complies in a box and didn't re-visit the idea for at least a month. Even then I picked a nice safe time when my wife was around.

 

[camille]

this is what turned me off the ER-6i; i had used tri-flanges then and the right one always got stuck when i removed it. this was before i discovered yellow foamies...

oh well. c'est la vie. ES2s coming back to me soon so i don't face that problem anymore...

 

[Rrose Selavy]

I wouldn't worry about it too much. Your ear canal isn't that deep. They would never get so far as to be unreachable with a pair of tweesers. I managed to mash one in my ear to the point that I could feel it against my ear drum and got it out with tweesers and no ear drum damage.

 

[bhd812]

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Originally Posted by proud2deviate /img/forum/go_quote.gif Just lost a sleeve in my ear. .

no you didnt....You knew the Sleeve was in your ear the whole time so you really didnt "lose" nothing now did you?

if you looked in your ear but couldnt find it then you would of "lost" the sleeve..


but you knew the whole time where the sleeve was, it was in your ear. so it was never lost...I rest my case

 

[GlorytheWiz825]

Don't panic, use some tweezers to get them out. Don't stick your finger in there! Will only push it in further.

 

[jdimitri]

I just used my nails..
Happened all the time with the greys, if i haven't cleaned it for quite a while

 

[camille]

yes to the tweezers, a point of advice, under any circumstance, DO NOT use a bent paper clip!! don't do what i did to remove a tri-flange once.

 

[srikeerthi]

Been there, felt that!

I used to wear my panasonic hje-50 for daily and rough use and the sleeve had gotten a bit loose. Once after getting it out of my ear i saw that one sleeve is missing. Assuming that it fell somewhere on the road I din't bother about it much, and left the hje-50 unused...

Few days later started feeling the pain. Went to an ENT specialist only to discover my lost sleeve inside my ear! :O

Call me stupid, but it dint realise it till then. I've been using it again since then, but I'm more careful while removing them

 

[Wmcmanus]

Quote:

Originally Posted by nfusion770 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I had this happen once- the first time I tried comply tips on my e500s. I immediately put the complies in a box and didn't re-visit the idea for at least a month. Even then I picked a nice safe time when my wife was around.

Same thing happened to me about 2 weeks ago with a comply tip and the E500. I looked around all over the ground where I was at for the silly thing, but couldn't find it because it was night and a gravel driveway (or so that's what I thought). My friend was saying, "Are you sure it's not in your ear?" but of course I thought she was being dense, so I dismissed her comment out of hand.

The next day I was thinking that I'd had a hearing loss. I kept asking people to repeat themselves all day! That, and my right ear was really annoying me. It wasn't until I put a Q-tip in and didn't feel anything that I said, "Well, I'll be, Ellie Mae!" I felt like Jethro on the Beverly Hillbillies. My girlfriend eventually managed to pull it out with some tweezers. It's actually still useable.

The trick with the comply tips is to reach in as far as you can and get at least one finger tip on them so you can twist them out. If you just pull on the E500 earbuds, the tips will want to stay in your ears because they have an amazing suction force.

 

[CaspianPH]

Whaaaaaaaatt???????
WHAAAAAATTTTT?????

<does plunger motion with palm into right ear>



damnit..IEM people...word of advice: Always, ALWAYS carry tweezers with you.

and damnit, I hate licking, or wetting the tips of my tri-flanges in public, holy **** is it embarrassing.

 

[Zakalwe]

I had that happen to me with my E4C's several times as well. Cleaning the stems helped a bit, but only temporarily, and the frequent removal of the tips seemed to soften/loosen them up, making matters worse. A year ago I finally glued them on with blue loctite, no more problems since then. Not sure if they can be removed again, but the blue kind of loctite is meant to be non-permanent as far as I know.

Björn