I have this Sony Walkman. How do I clean the earphones? I’m thinking I can use a safety pin or maybe a staple to clean the little holes, but can I/should I gently swab with rubbing alcohol also? I don’t want to force ear wax (I know, yuck, but there you go) further down into the earphones, but I would like to clean them out.
You might be able to snap off the screens and clean them separately. They appear to be separate pieces of plastic, so give them a light twist or something to make sure they’re not glued in.
When I was working in interpretation, we used to rub down all the headsets that went out with isopropyl alchohol. It seemed to work fairly well as a solvent, and if you’ve got a pretty wet cloth you should be able to dissolve the wax in the screen.