biczmusic
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Cleaning Lavaliers
#940978 - 15/09/11 12:12 PM
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Hi everyone Have a quick one: What products do you use to clean
Lavaliers? The mic itself and the cable as well. Where can I get them? Cheers for all your help. 
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Sheriton
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Re: Cleaning Lavaliers
[Re: biczmusic]
#941021 - 15/09/11 02:11 PM
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Depends what you're trying to clean off them... IPA is good for most things; available
from any decent supplier of electronics servicing kit - CPC etc.
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Hugh Robjohns
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Re: Cleaning Lavaliers
[Re: Sheriton]
#941036 - 15/09/11 02:49 PM
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IPA -- not the beer! He means isopropyl alcohol (just in case anyone wasn't sure!  ) hugh
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twotoedsloth
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Re: Cleaning Lavaliers
[Re: Hugh Robjohns]
#941047 - 15/09/11 04:04 PM
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Not to hijack the thread, but is there a way to save a lav that you accidentally submerged
in beer?
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Hugh Robjohns
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Re: Cleaning Lavaliers
[Re: twotoedsloth]
#941055 - 15/09/11 04:42 PM
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Wash it thoroughly in distilled water as soon as possible after theevent. Leave to dry
naturally. Hope for the best. The construction of the electret capsule makes them relatively impervious to water
damage, but sugary, sticky things like beer, and corrosive salty things like sweat, can
kill lavaliers pretty quickly. Hugh
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seablade
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Re: Cleaning Lavaliers
[Re: Hugh Robjohns]
#941057 - 15/09/11 04:55 PM
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Quote Hugh Robjohns:
Wash it
thoroughly in distilled water as soon as possible after theevent. Leave to dry naturally.
Hope for the best.
The construction of the electret capsule makes them relatively impervious to water
damage, but sugary, sticky things like beer, and corrosive salty things like sweat, can
kill lavaliers pretty quickly.
Hugh
I know a few people that are using ultrasonic cleaners for this
as well, though I don't know from first hand experience how well it does or does not
work.
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twotoedsloth
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Re: Cleaning Lavaliers
[Re: biczmusic]
#941073 - 15/09/11 06:47 PM
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Hmm... well, I set the lav aside after a performer stupidly tossed it into a beer glass
backstage, fully intending to try to repair it last May, probably too late to save it now,
but I'll try all the same. I probably also should have asked him to pay for a new lav
right after the incident, but I procrastinated, and here we are in September...
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John Willett
Sound-Link ProAudio
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Re: Cleaning Lavaliers
[Re: twotoedsloth]
#941441 - 17/09/11 11:38 AM
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Quote twotoedsloth:
Hmm... well,
I set the lav aside after a performer stupidly tossed it into a beer glass backstage,
fully intending to try to repair it last May, probably too late to save it now, but I'll
try all the same. I probably also should have asked him to pay for a new lav right after
the incident, but I procrastinated, and here we are in September...
You should immediately have billed the
performer for a new microphone.
No argument - his fault - his stupidity.
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TSH-Tim
Joined: 21/02/11
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Re: Cleaning Lavaliers
[Re: biczmusic]
#941583 - 17/09/11 11:30 PM
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Ummm that would of really wound me up BIG time ! Arrr hate people like that - NO respect
for kit,
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twotoedsloth
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Re: Cleaning Lavaliers
[Re: TSH-Tim]
#941586 - 17/09/11 11:43 PM
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This is one of the major problems with working at a university, everyone thinks we have
unlimited budgets, so they frequently "borrow" and/or mistreat gear. You might also
wonder why someone was allowed to have alcohol backstage, well, that's because we hire
students to work backstage, and none of them have the guts to call someone out....
I soaked the lav in distilled water, and I'm going to wait for week for it to dry
out.
If this doesn't work, is it worth trying hydrogen peroxide or isopropyl?
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TSH-Tim
Joined: 21/02/11
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Re: Cleaning Lavaliers
[Re: biczmusic]
#941613 - 18/09/11 02:47 AM
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Surely your just charge them no ?
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