OK, this might seem weird to folks, but my old studio was in the basement of our rental townhouse. A few months ago my wife told me we had a mouse in the basement. So I go to the hardware store and get the little boxes with the blue pellets and place them in the basement. Within a couple of days the pellets are more or less gone from the box (I didn't eat them!) and then a few days later the whole place smelled like dead mouse. Since we were renting and had just purchased our first home we didn't mind too much, and the smell went away within a week.
Flash forward to last night - I was unpacking my studio (now to be setup in a bedroom in our house) and I took one of my Tannoy Reveal Actives out of the box and I heard a rattling noise. My first thought was loose parts/screws/etc..., but there was quite a bit noise (think maracas!), so I flip them upside down and start shaking. What do you think comes out of the hole in the back- (no it wasn't the mouse), the blue pellets!!!!! So I shake as much out as I can but there's still a bunch in there. I take a flash light and I see what appears to be a clump of "dust" inside the cabinet. My wife thinks the mouse made this his little nest, and he would bring the pellets in there, and that he may have died in there, but now he had distentegrated into dust bunnies (don't ask how my wife knows so much about mice!)
So my question is - How do I get all the pellets out? There's a couple of funny screws on the speakers on the back of the cabinet. There's also a big shock hazard warning on the cabinet. Now I was running the speakers at the old place when the pellets (and possibly dead? mouse) were there and I didn't notice that anything was particularly wrong with the monitor, in fact I even kept them powered up 24/7. I'm probably going to call Tannoy today but I figured there must be someone out there who had a similar critter problem in there studio.
Thanks!
Flash forward to last night - I was unpacking my studio (now to be setup in a bedroom in our house) and I took one of my Tannoy Reveal Actives out of the box and I heard a rattling noise. My first thought was loose parts/screws/etc..., but there was quite a bit noise (think maracas!), so I flip them upside down and start shaking. What do you think comes out of the hole in the back- (no it wasn't the mouse), the blue pellets!!!!! So I shake as much out as I can but there's still a bunch in there. I take a flash light and I see what appears to be a clump of "dust" inside the cabinet. My wife thinks the mouse made this his little nest, and he would bring the pellets in there, and that he may have died in there, but now he had distentegrated into dust bunnies (don't ask how my wife knows so much about mice!)
So my question is - How do I get all the pellets out? There's a couple of funny screws on the speakers on the back of the cabinet. There's also a big shock hazard warning on the cabinet. Now I was running the speakers at the old place when the pellets (and possibly dead? mouse) were there and I didn't notice that anything was particularly wrong with the monitor, in fact I even kept them powered up 24/7. I'm probably going to call Tannoy today but I figured there must be someone out there who had a similar critter problem in there studio.
Thanks!
