Removing Stuck IEM Tips

Phostenix

Power User
So, I got a set of NOS Shure SE210's the other day & when I tried to remove the installed soft tips that came pre-installed they wouldn't budge. Not at all. I'd read some reviews of IEMs where people complained that they broke off one of the plastic sound tubes trying to remove the preinstalled tips, so I gently pushed & prodded & twisted every way I could without really forcing them.

I decided to put them in the refrigerator for a few hours and that did the trick. They twisted right off like they should.
 
3 of my band members have had the tips come off in their ears in the last year. All using Shure buds of various quality. We carry a tweezer with us now so I can fish the tips out of their ear canals, which I find hilarious.
 
3 of my band members have had the tips come off in their ears in the last year. All using Shure buds of various quality. We carry a tweezer with us now so I can fish the tips out of their ear canals, which I find hilarious.

Clearly, it is too cold in North Dakota.
 
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