XSW Handhelds - Power switches

[sandall]

One of my local churches is killing the power switches on their Mk.1 XSW handhelds. Does anyone know whether Sennheiser still mend things?

[Stuart91]

https://www.sennprospares.co.uk/shop/search?keywords=XSW

They seem to stock the covers but not the buttons, nevertheless it's probably worth asking. 

[sandall]

Thanks for that. I suppose I'm going to have to collect them & work out how they come apart.

[sunray]

I'm out of touch with Sennies are these the version with 2 buttons and a turn round flap on the end?

Part of the official repair of those was to reduce the 'long push' time. Our repair of them included placing a cardboard pad under the new button to ease the pressure on the legs.

[sandall]

Those are the Evolutions - with a different PIA button problem🙁

[sunray]

4 hours ago, sandall said:

Those are the Evolutions - with a different PIA button problem🙁

Thanks.

As said I'm out of touch with Sennies, it's been at least 25 years since I even handled any of the range let alone used tools on one.

[sandall]

Well, the only way to remove the bit of body that covers the switch seems to be brute force with a sharp penknife. That's the easy bit; the "switch" is actually 2 tiny pieces of metal & an equally tiny piece of plastic, all of which need to be orientated correctly, & all of which will fall on the floor when you pick the mic up!! Unless you have good eyesight, a good lighting & good luck you may never see them again, in which case you now have a non-mic😥.

[david.elsbury]

I’ve often said I wanted to setup my workbench in a shower tray, to catch the bits that inevitably fall out and usually end up in the carpet…