In ear headset cleaning

ozziecat35

ozziecat35

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I have a custom molds for my clarity aloft, and maybe twice a month I will lose sound in an ear due to some clogged ear wax. I feel I’m a generally clean person, but the holes in my ear molds are like magnets for the little ear wax I produce. Has anyone found a super small diameter cleaning apparatus that will get ALL the wax out instead of just the very first layer I can get with a safety pin?
 
ozziecat35 said:
I have a custom molds for my clarity aloft, and maybe twice a month I will lose sound in an ear due to some clogged ear wax. I feel I’m a generally clean person, but the holes in my ear molds are like magnets for the little ear wax I produce. Has anyone found a super small diameter cleaning apparatus that will get ALL the wax out instead of just the very first layer I can get with a safety pin?
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I guess the ear molds don’t pop off easily like tips for ear buds?
 
I have nothing to add, but this is like the grossest topic ever. However, on a personal level, I do enjoy using a q-tip once in a while. I'll just say that it is entertaining sometimes to see the contraptions people wear that aren't A20's. I sometimes want to ask "is there a laser range finder eye piece that goes with that too?" :)
 
I’m kinda surprised the custom earpiece vendors don’t have something. I hear there’s some kind of vacuum tool available.

I haven’t founds going custom necessary, so that hasn’t been an issue. Those 3M yellows the audiologists use have worked great and are cheap enough in bulk to toss when they get grungy.
 
ozziecat35 said:
I have a custom molds for my clarity aloft, and maybe twice a month I will lose sound in an ear due to some clogged ear wax. I feel I’m a generally clean person, but the holes in my ear molds are like magnets for the little ear wax I produce. Has anyone found a super small diameter cleaning apparatus that will get ALL the wax out instead of just the very first layer I can get with a safety pin?
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Normally, I'd use hot, soapy water for this, but you got me thinking....you might try using some of the over-the-counter earwax cleaner, maybe in a little baggie or small bowl and immerse the tips in it. A little hydrogen peroxide/water solution might also work there. Then maybe a toothpick to ream them out?
 
///AMG said:
I have nothing to add, but this is like the grossest topic ever. However, on a personal level, I do enjoy using a q-tip once in a while. I'll just say that it is entertaining sometimes to see the contraptions people wear that aren't A20's. I sometimes want to ask "is there a laser range finder eye piece that goes with that too?" :)
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In true internet fashion, there is a whole video genre of people getting their gross ears cleaned, captured in sterling 4k digital video.
 
///AMG said:
I have nothing to add, but this is like the grossest topic ever. However, on a personal level, I do enjoy using a q-tip once in a while. I'll just say that it is entertaining sometimes to see the contraptions people wear that aren't A20's. I sometimes want to ask "is there a laser range finder eye piece that goes with that too?" :)
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Meh. The A20s are overpriced trash and I will die on this hill. Bose has been making cheap things expensive since forever. Go to a home theater store and ask yourself why the Bose speakers are off by themselves and not near any other speakers. $300 to replace my cord? GFYS.
 
word302 said:
Meh. The A20s are overpriced trash and I will die on this hill. Bose has been making cheap things expensive since forever. Go to a home theater store and ask yourself why the Bose speakers are off by themselves and not near any other speakers. $300 to replace my cord? GFYS.
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I'm not willing to wear some bizarre contraption with earpieces cause they look insane too me and I always hated/threw out my CEPs for helmets in the Navy (no offense anyone/you do you), but do you have rec in the same category of an A20? For when my cord fails and I don't want to pay them $300
 
///AMG said:
I'm not willing to wear some bizarre contraption with earpieces cause they look insane too me, but do you have rec in the same category of an A20? For when my cord fails and I don't want to pay them $300
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David Clark.

For jets, Pro-X2s. For other airplanes, I hear the OneX is pretty great too. They always seem to stand by their stuff.

I've had the ProFlight2 from Bose (in-ear, very light). I loved them in the 737. Very light. However, the Pro-X2s are great if you don't have a hot interphone. You can keep an ear semi-covered and still get ANC. If I only want one earpiece in, I'll dig out my Plantronics ear mold.
 
///AMG said:
I'm not willing to wear some bizarre contraption with earpieces cause they look insane too me and I always hated/threw out my CEPs for helmets in the Navy (no offense anyone/you do you), but do you have rec in the same category of an A20? For when my cord fails and I don't want to pay them $300
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I haven't worn over-ear headsets for almost a decade now. I won't ever go back. I've got an A20 rotting in a closet somewhere. I've been using the axis headset (axisheadset.com) for 6 or 7 years now. It's built by a former OO pilot who did so well he quit his flying job and makes headsets full-time.
 
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