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Q: eMac 1.0Ghz ATI Speaker Grille Removal

Just bought an eMac on eBay and discovered that there is a lot of maintenance to be done. The speaker holes contain lots of dust and hair and I am wondering if it is possible to remove the grilles without breaking them. I can take apart the eMac if needed, but I heard that you can just 'pop' off the speaker grilles on older 700 and 800 eMacs.

Thanks,

Alex

Posted on Mar 10, 2016 5:04 PM

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Q: eMac 1.0Ghz ATI Speaker Grille Removal

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  • by BDAqua,Helpful

    BDAqua BDAqua Mar 26, 2016 6:47 PM in response to ChroMacintosh
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    Mar 26, 2016 6:47 PM in response to ChroMacintosh

    Not sure about the grilles, but the 700 was an Education model as I recall, so I doubt they pop off...

     

    http://www.mac-net.nl/apple-service-manuals/Manuals/emac.pdf

  • by ChroMacintosh,

    ChroMacintosh ChroMacintosh Mar 26, 2016 6:47 PM in response to BDAqua
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    Mar 26, 2016 6:47 PM in response to BDAqua

    Thanks for the response, for anyone wondering the same thing as me: The eMacs with white speakers, not silver ones, are unable to be cleaned as they are a paper like material and once they absorb the yellow colouring it cannot be removed. Also, I did have luck popping the grilles out and putting them back in, you have to open up the eMac and unscrew the speakers partially however to do so.

  • by BDAqua,

    BDAqua BDAqua Mar 26, 2016 7:43 PM in response to ChroMacintosh
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    Mar 26, 2016 7:43 PM in response to ChroMacintosh

    Great, thanks for the report, nice to know!

  • by Allan Jones,

    Allan Jones Allan Jones Mar 27, 2016 2:59 PM in response to BDAqua
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    Mar 27, 2016 2:59 PM in response to BDAqua

    Hey BD.

     

    I'm getting a dead link message from two different browsers. We have another eMac user here who is looking for manuals and, when I found I did not have a manual site for late eMacs, was certainly interested that you had a link. Any other ideas?  I'm running out of trusted sites and left with a lot promising free manuals in Eastern Europe, but we know the pitfalls with "free" and that part of the world!

  • by Pheidius1,

    Pheidius1 Pheidius1 Apr 29, 2016 5:54 PM in response to Allan Jones
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    Apr 29, 2016 5:54 PM in response to Allan Jones

    I will look for you in my archives.  I heavily modded those machines at one time. I overclocked them to 1.37 by soldering on new resistors and added a second hard drive by tapping into the optical drive. You could also hack them to drive a second monitor. I may have just used the guy's directions though who did a how to on the overclocking. I could not find mine but a quick search finds many manual you can read if not download.

  • by Pheidius1,

    Pheidius1 Pheidius1 Apr 29, 2016 6:11 PM in response to Allan Jones
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    Apr 29, 2016 6:11 PM in response to Allan Jones

    BTW you will need the manual as the grill is the front of an entire speaker sub assembly: This means the entire outer  case must come off off. Mind you don't tear of the power button wire on removal. That is tricky but a must.