Monthly Archives: August 2016

Sewn Open

In need of some earcaps or earpieces I was going through a box with all kinds of spare parts from shells. Things you gather over time and you never throw away. Luckily the volume is not that big so a small box more or less does not matter in my garage. And for some reason you will always end up with usefull destinations… hopefully ;-).

This is what I had in mind when I bought the 2 Gold Plate shells from the previous post. Going trough the box I selected some different caps and I realized there was some ‘inside information’ to be shared on this topic as well.

earcaps

 

Flat – Sandalwood

Wedge – Candle Glow and  Persian Gray

 

 

According to my knowledge there are 2 types of speakers available in the Ericofon that have been used over the years. The wedge cap is available in 2 flavours to fit both of them. For the flat cap, I do not know if it comes with both speakers at all.

According to what I experienced, the bigger speaker tends to break from the cap from time to time since it is only mounted with 2 metal clips on plastic ridges. Therefor some Ericofons produce a rattling sound if you shake them. This can be resolved by stuffing the top of the phone with some soft material. It is not really fixing the problem but keep the speaker in place and you will get rid of the annoying rattle. Sound quality will also improve a bit if you use the phone.

Update 15/10/2016:

This week I received a picture from Peter Schröder who encountered an interesting earpiecebarmodification on this flat earpiece.

We do not have a clue where the metal bar is used for. I can only think about extra possibilities in remounting the cap. But glue will also work without it.

If you do know, pleae tell me.