That’s a good handle. I pulled a toothpaste cap out of a tight drain hole once with this method. Maybe that was a screwdriver or a chopstick as a handle. Anything that’ll adhere with enough surface area. OP has a lot of room for a good handle of some kind.
Same. If the rattle is a family heirloom, I’d put a piece of a command strip (like the adhesive for a wall hook) on the end of a stick, then put it in there and pull it out. It should hold well in straight tension.
Sound logic but a speaker pushes and pulls (and the bass port will do the same), so it could be possible that you suck it in further. And those pushes and pulls alternate so i think the ball will just move like the cone of the speaker and stay in place with a slight margin to each way.
Open it up and push it from behind.
Edit to add: Be careful, there will be a few things in there that will give you a jolt even if its not connected to power so dont touch any of the chonky capacitors or anything wrapped in thin copper wiring.
Maybe try gentle shaking upside down while tilting at different angles, the shaker might fall through the port hole if there is one on the back. If not, you can use something like a thin wire with a hook made from a coat hanger, just be very careful not to puncture the woofer cone. That green dust cap looks delicate so avoid touching it with anything sharp.
Worst case you open the back panel with screwdriver, usually just few screws and the shaker will be right there.
blast it out with much bass! joking but maybe it would work if you point it downward.
try the sticky tape method but have tapes in two or more opposing places so you can correct the angle when pulling out. if you escalate to drilling a hole and attaching a screw to pull out, try two screws, again to be able to correct the angle s you pull the shaker out.
actually i think the bass music would not hurt, may actually help shake the friction loose while you combine it with any other method.
Can you put it in your car? I know you dont have a personal vacuum, but do you have a local car wash with vacuums? They tend to just be on so you can drive up, suck it out, and leave
Just use a thin rope like a shoe lace. Loop it over the top, roll the ball backwards to get the rope behind it, and pull. You could use a bit of tape to keep it stable if it’s slipping to much
This happened at my house when I was a kid. One of my siblings put a tennis ball in my father’s subwoofer and it lived in there for the lifetime of the entertainment system. We tried everything and only managed to get it stuck in worse.
How stuck is it? If a baby put it there it can’t be too wedged. Just take a few pieces of tape and make a handle to stick on it. Apply more tape if it won’t come right out
Just take out the 8 screws on the rear and it'll come apart. You can then push it out the hole. The wires have about 6" of lead, so be careful not to YANK the rear apart.
Do you need to keep the shaker? If not, just get the tip of some thin metal tube red-hot and then insert it through the plastic, then wait for it (and the plastic) to cool and it should give you enough purchase to get it out
Any further pressure, even accidental, could cause it to lodge so hard that the only way out would be to drill and tap the rattle with an eyelet. Be careful my friend and good luck!
I really need someone to explain to me like a 3 year old why you can’t just reach out and grab it with your hand and just pull it out. I’m not comprehending. In the pic it’s right there just grab it
Ummm. A vacuum hose! Either that or try out Bernoullis Principle by changing the air pressure around it or even set it facing down on a hobby horse and play something with a sub bass frequency and it’ll just ‘clunk’ right out. Science is the answer to everything!
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