My Right side woofer had a terrible buzz. Fixed it with a shop vac!

[Pano]

What's that buzz? My right side woofer was buzzing something terrible and needed to be fixed. Here are two pictures of the problem.

A brand new hive. How to get them out? With a shop vacuum. All 10,000 of them.

Let the jokes begin.

 

[AllenB]

Oh, bee-hive!

 

[motokok]

A Nightmare!

 

[soulsheiksan]

Killer bees need a killer soundtrack

 

[Galu]

I suspect their favourite music will be anything by Queen.

 

[Galu]

Or something by Sting!

 

[NareshBrd]

Put a bit of tobacco leaf stem inside the cabinet, with some Neem leaves...and if you think safe, put naphthalene balls.
The odor disturbs them.
We have small bee like insects, I just use an oil can to put a few drops of engine oil on their nests, the nesting smell is disturbed by that residue.
Inside a cabinet, I would not do that.
You can use a pouch of muslin like material to hold the insect repellent in place, and stop it flying around.

 

[NareshBrd]

Had they got around to the honey stage, or it was at the early building stage?

A planter in Coorg (hilly area in Karnataka State) once gave me a small bottle of honey, it was collected by the bees from his coffee plantation.
Memorable, it tasted of coffee.

 

[tktran303]

Another reason for no ports, please.

 

[Cal Weldon]

Those bees are aligned poorly. It’s causing a lot of honeycomb filtering.

 

[marco_gea]

Poor bees :-(

 

[Ultima Thule]

I was thinking the same whether the bees could be smoked out or by other means chased out, they do better job in the nature than in a vacuum cleaner.
At least I hope you salvaged the bees wax, can always roll your own audiophile caps and transformers. :)

 

[tonyEE]

Did you try to play Killer Bee ?

How did you figure out the problem? Was the midrange too syrupy? The soundstage a bit too sticky?

 

[AllenB]

Perhaps the music doesn't flow well.

 

[tonyEE]

There was a waxy sound to the midrange.

Do they make large cotton swabs to clean out the port wax?

 

[TNT]

Is that Mr. Aldrins ol' speakers?

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[billshurv]

I have had bee keepers confirm that they have used shop vacs to collect up bees and 'most' of them survive the ordeal.


BTW how did you count them?

 

[Pano]

The beekeeper gave me the number, I certainly didn’t count them all! I was a young hive, no more than 4 days old. You can see the combs are white and have no honey.

The vacuum was mild, so as to not injure the bees. They were actually sucked into a hive, not the shop vac itself. The hive was inline before the vacuum - a screen in the hive was used to keep the bees from being sucked into the actual vacuum cleaner.

 

[krivium]

Don't use bee's wax capacitors it attract them!

 

[billshurv]

wish I could do the same here. We have a hive in a blocked off chimney. Turns out these make perfect living space for bees as warm, protected from the elements and high up.