I recently got a slightly used set of Sound Professionals SP-CMC-4U microphones. They're made from the Audio Technica U853 bases and capsules (which I believe have the same internals as the older AT853).
I tried them out once and they worked fine. But for the next use I was trying to figure out the clips I got with them, which I had a lot of difficulty in positioning in useful way.
I could barely even move the clips with the capsules on, so I removed the capsules to fiddle with the clips a bit. At some point I noticed there was a little gold tab sticking out from one of the bases. I tried to bend it back the other direction to match how and it immediately snapped off.
I'm hoping this will be an easy repair if I get the correct piece, but I don't know what it is called. It's the piece of the base that actually makes contact with the interior of the capsule. I don't know why such an important piece would be so fragile, especially in a set with changeable capsules.
I would appreciate if anyone could tell me an easy place I could get a replacement piece, or even what it's called, and any advice on the repair. I may contact Sound Professionals about it, but thought I would ask for insight here first.
Attached is a photo of the intact base, with the tab sticking up just a bit. It was tough to get a photo which showed this piece very well, but hopefully some will recognize it..
Topic: Broken piece in AT-U853 microphone (Read 43 times)