Anybody Lost a Magnum Blaster Yet?

[Ari Rankum]

I've only had my Magnum Blaster horns for about a month. They've been working great.

You may have heard - about two weeks ago we had major flooding along the east coast. We had quite a bit locally, too. My usual standard is that any day where one of two legs of the commute can be completed in the dry is a good day to ride. When I'm pissed off, it really doesn't matter what the weather is, IT'S A GOOD DAY TO RIDE. My last really bad mood corresponded with the floods. So, it's entirely possible I killed the low tone of the Magnum Blasters with water, cuz that's about when the low tone stopped working.

I've checked the wiring connections. They're sound (no pun). The high tone still fires. They share a circuit, so I don't think it's juice. I haven't pulled the low tone and wired it up to 12 volts, but that would be very easy to do. Anybody else lost one? Anybody think riding through a monsoon might kill a horn, assuming water got inside and persisted until the horn was fired? Anybody make a warranty claim?

 

[twowheelnut]

Water dicks 'em up, it's been posted...

 

[Ari Rankum]

Water dicks 'em up, it's been posted...

I searched for "dicks 'em up" and I now have a 50% warning on my karma meter. I'm not even going to go into what sorts of biases the moderators may have.

I'm not seeing that the horns are affected by water, but I have found where the switch has been affected by water, causing a short and resulting unrelenting blast on the horns.

Do you know of someone having a horn fail from water ingestion?

 

[twowheelnut]

Yup. Ingestion of H2O can and often does screw the toot pooch. Go over to .ws and do a search or PM the owner of fjrtech.com. There is documented failure due to water, but damned if I can find a link for you.

 

[Ari Rankum]

Yup. Ingestion of H2O can and often does screw the toot pooch. Go over to .ws and do a search or PM the owner of fjrtech.com. There is documented failure due to water, but damned if I can find a link for you.

I'll give it a shot. Thanks.

 

[dcarver]

I wonder if putting it in the oven at 250F for 1/2 hour or so might do good? OVEN, Ari, not microwave..

 

[Ari Rankum]

I wonder if putting it in the oven at 250F for 1/2 hour or so might do good? OVEN, Ari, not microwave..

Literally, LOL.

I hadn't really thought of that. Good idea. I'll try to dry it out and see if that does it.

 

[Rickster]

lemme know if the oven trick works. just installed a pair, and if they get wet -- maybe there will already be a solution (or lack of solution after the oven

 

[Groo]

If you've got them off the bike, hold the horns and try swirling them around in small circles... I can usually get a couple tablespoons of small rocks/grit out of mine that gets shot in there while going down the road...

 

[RonC]

I lost my first pair of Magnum Blaster horns after too aggressive a wash. They went from sounds that stop trains in their tracks to peeping like Tweety Bird. I cut out pieces of speaker cloth and glued them to the openings of the replacement horns. They now have survived torrential rains and bike washings, although I'm now careful not to squirt water up the horns (the openings face downwards).

Ron

 

[Ari Rankum]

If you've got them off the bike, hold the horns and try swirling them around in small circles... I can usually get a couple tablespoons of small rocks/grit out of mine that gets shot in there while going down the road...

That's a thought, too. I suppose there was ample opportunity during the roosting I did in the floods for road spooge to make it into the horns.

 

[PerfectBlueride]

Water dicks 'em up, it's been posted...

I searched for "dicks 'em up" and I now have a 50% warning on my karma meter. I'm not even going to go into what sorts of biases the moderators may have.

I'm not seeing that the horns are affected by water, but I have found where the switch has been affected by water, causing a short and resulting unrelenting blast on the horns.

Do you know of someone having a horn fail from water ingestion?

I road through a flood of water about a month ago, the next day I hit the horns and they sounded fine, hit them again and nothing.

I replaced the relay and they worked again. hope this helps

 

[madmike2]

I lost my first pair of Magnum Blaster horns after too aggressive a wash. They went from sounds that stop trains in their tracks to peeping like Tweety Bird. I cut out pieces of speaker cloth and glued them to the openings of the replacement horns. They now have survived torrential rains and bike washings, although I'm now careful not to squirt water up the horns (the openings face downwards).
Ron

There have been a couple of reports of water or road-splooge getting into the horns. RonC has the fix.

 

[odot]

Drill a hole where the water would ultimately rest inside the horns.....and careful not to "**** 'em up".

 

[Groo]

Drill a hole where the water would ultimately rest inside the horns.....and careful not to "**** 'em up".

Won't all the sound leak out too? :lol:

 

[madmike2]

Drill a hole where the water would ultimately rest inside the horns.....and careful not to "**** 'em up".

Won't all the sound leak out too? :lol:

If you drill vewy, vewy small holes, only a vewy wittle sound leaks out.

 

[twowheelnut]

Drill a hole where the water would ultimately rest inside the horns.....and careful not to "**** 'em up".

Won't all the sound leak out too? :lol:

If you drill vewy, vewy small holes, only a vewy wittle sound leaks out.

'Won't the sound leak out...' Sheesh, what a bunch of 'tards! The sound can't leak out - waddaya's thinkin'? If you do drill, be careful not to puncture the horn oil reservoir. That oil is 'spensive. Don't ask me how I know this.

 

[Rickster]

<snip>
'Won't the sound leak out...' Sheesh, what a bunch of 'tards! The sound can't leak out - waddaya's thinkin'? If you do drill, be careful not to puncture the horn oil reservoir. That oil is 'spensive. Don't ask me how I know this.

Don't be silly TWN -- of course you'd cover the hole with sound gore-tex and the water can't get in, but the sound travels through as a vapor

and if the oil gets out, that's ok as long as the smoke doesn't leak out -- all 'lectronic stuff works off smoke. let it out -- and it doesn't work. It's a ***** to get the smoke sealed back in there.

 

[RonC]

Rest your fears and stop the hand wringing. The horns use the same fluids as the blinkers.

I use 5 wt blinker fluid with success- $16 for 4 fluid ounces at Auto Checker Zone and $1.98 at Walmart.

Ron