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Gear / Technical Help => Microphones & Setup => Topic started by: airbladder on May 11, 2016, 09:42:00 AM
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I just picked up a pair of Neumann KMR82i from the yard sale. These things have been around the block but seem to work just fine. Well they are 15 inch shotguns and I just grabbed a inexpensive pair of windscreens but am having a hard time putting them on. I get that these windscreens will go on a bit tight but it seems that there is some sticky residue on the microphones that is making it impossible to slip them on and I don't want to force them. I was considering sending them out to get a tested, cleaned up, and possibly replace the missing badges >:( but figure that will be expensive and I an not willing to invest in that currently. So any thoughts on how to remove sticky residue from a mic without hurting it? They are black so I don't want to mess up the finish and some of the residue is around the cap and vents so i don't want anything to drip inside and cause issues. Any help would be great.
Also if anyone has any great suggestions on how to transport these bad boys that would be great. Figured I would cut down a plastic shipping tube to size and store them with the screens on for protection.
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maybe try a touch of goo gone on an area not near the caps to test?
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But it's all around the cap and vent. Honestly I don't know where the cap is. If it's at the end, where the sticky stuff is, or if it's further back; it has like a foot long section with vents on one side. This is my first time messing around with shotguns so I don't know what they look like inside. I should look that up.
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Thank you, this is what I was thinking.
The diaphragm in a shotgun will be towards the rear of the vents on the tube--the majority of the venting is in front of the diaphragm, with a much shorter section of venting behind the backplate. Note that for a windscreen to be effective it will have to cover the entire vented section of the tube.
I would try isopropyl alcohol on the sticky stuff.
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There are no electronics inside the long front-section of vented tube, it's hollow. All the delicate internal stuff starts with the capsule just forward of the rear-most set of vents and includes the electronics behind it.
I'm with Jon on rubbing off the sticky stuff using a rag soaked with isopropyl alcohol. That's worked for me removing rubber coating residue from all sorts of electronic gear which has gone all gummy. Usually requires application using a good bit of elbow grease to fully remove it.
.. and possibly replace the missing badges >:
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I find this does a better job than isopropyl alchohol. Apply to a rag, not the mic and it will cut through the gunk and leave no residue.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419wfLm5JZL._SY300_.jpg)
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I find this does a better job than isopropyl alchohol. Apply to a rag, not the mic and it will cut through the gunk and leave no residue.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419wfLm5JZL._SY300_.jpg)
And it tastes delicious when strained through a sock......wook juice!!