Small nut inside of speaker

paymontna
paymontna Posts: 188
edited June 2008 in Speakers
A nut slipped out of my hand and fell between the baffle of my Lsi 9 and I think it was sucked into the bass port. What to do? :eek:
And I mean calling all cars, blackhawk down, mushroom cloud, Three Mile Island, lock the door behind you kind of mad.:mad:
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited June 2008
    Hold it upside down and do the chicken dance.
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • paymontna
    paymontna Posts: 188
    edited June 2008
    Face wrote: »
    Hold it upside down and do the chicken dance.

    I did more than the chicken dance. All I could think about was...."We are caught in the tractor Beam."...."Use the Force Luke". I shook it every which way w/o getting crazy.

    Pay
    And I mean calling all cars, blackhawk down, mushroom cloud, Three Mile Island, lock the door behind you kind of mad.:mad:
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  • TNRabbit
    TNRabbit Posts: 2,168
    edited June 2008
    It's stuck to the speaker magnet now.
    TNRabbit
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  • paymontna
    paymontna Posts: 188
    edited June 2008
    I have another magnet that I could use to try and fish it out with, but I do not want to screw up the polarity of the speaker magnets. Is that possible. OR, I could crank up my pb plus 2 and blow it out.
    And I mean calling all cars, blackhawk down, mushroom cloud, Three Mile Island, lock the door behind you kind of mad.:mad:
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  • dane_peterson
    dane_peterson Posts: 1,903
    edited June 2008
    Hilarious.

    Edit: Oh, like a bolt NUT. I thought you meant a pistachio or something. Not as funny now.
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  • AndyGwis
    AndyGwis Posts: 3,655
    edited June 2008
    I have nuts (foam peanuts) stuck inside the LsiC I just picked up. Thanks for the awesome packaging job, dude that sold it to me!

    Took off a driver and the crossover to fish most of them out. . . but I can still hear one or two of them in there if I shake it.

    Drivers are easy to remove with a screwdriver, just don't poke any holes while you're **** / unscrewing. You should fine the nut against one of the magnets inside.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited June 2008
    dane_peterson wrote: »
    Hilarious.

    Edit: Oh, like a bolt NUT. I thought you meant a pistachio or something. Not as funny now.

    That's what I was thinking as well....I was like chew with your mouth closed for gosh sakes. Funny stuff.
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  • RutgersFTW
    RutgersFTW Posts: 458
    edited June 2008
    I had the red binding post tightener slide out of my hand while removing the jumpers off a pair of RTi8s and it hit the Power Port just right to slide inside. Luckily, the Power Port unscrewed easily and a few minutes shaking worked it out. That was plastic, though. Good luck with your problem.
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  • paymontna
    paymontna Posts: 188
    edited June 2008
    Anybody have sound advice (no pun intended) on how to get it out. The baffle on the back does not have any visible means of removing it. I do not want to trash my speakers.

    Pay
    And I mean calling all cars, blackhawk down, mushroom cloud, Three Mile Island, lock the door behind you kind of mad.:mad:
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited June 2008
    Remove the drivers.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited June 2008
    What he said. They might have some sort of sealant around them, just be careful.
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  • ward91
    ward91 Posts: 338
    edited June 2008
    +1
    take the drivers out, if no screw holes are visible they are often coverd up by grommets that hold the speaker grille on.
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  • paymontna
    paymontna Posts: 188
    edited June 2008
    Mission accomplished. I very carefully removed the tweet and the top driver. You almost have to remove the tweet to remove either of the drivers. After I removed the 9 screws, I used a thin metal washer to ever so slightly work the tweet loose. I got lucky; there was my little nut in plain sight. I did have to use a long screw driver and some patience because it was out of reach and I did no have a magnet that would fit inside. I now realize how well constructed these speakers are, and why they are so heavy.

    Pay
    And I mean calling all cars, blackhawk down, mushroom cloud, Three Mile Island, lock the door behind you kind of mad.:mad:
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited June 2008
    Job well done.
    Michael ;)
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  • paymontna
    paymontna Posts: 188
    edited June 2008
    The nut in question was nowhere near the magnets and probably never would have come close, but I think I still could have shook the thing until my arms fell off and it still would have not come out. I do not even know how it got that far in with all of the insulation.


    Pay
    And I mean calling all cars, blackhawk down, mushroom cloud, Three Mile Island, lock the door behind you kind of mad.:mad:
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