Washer fell into speaker coil gap - how f'd am I?

[Umbra]

While mounting my coaxial speaker to a board a washer defied the laws of physics and flew into the small gap at the center of the speaker between the voice coil and the tweeter pillar. Okay, maybe physics wasn't molested, but strong magnetic forces definitely came into play because that thing flew up into the air and arced right into the gap like a 3-point shot.

Here's the speaker in question, it's not my picture, but it illustrates what I'm talking about:

I can't access or even see where it is, but I imagine it's sitting down there between the voice coil and pillar and held down by the magnet. I've tried shaking it loose, but I don't hear anything.

I haven't tried to play it yet. I thought I'd just leave it, try it, and if I hear anything odd try to get it out. Now I'm worried I could severely damage the coil if it's in a bad spot.

What do you guys think, leave it and play it, or crack off the pillar, try to fish it out, and then hopefully rewire the tweeter?

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[wew lad 5,000+ posts]

rip

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

rip

this

 

[Umbra]

Happy ending here. I wised up and decided to operate on it before playing, which probably prevented the speaker from failing catastrophically. As it turns out if you tear the sticker off on the bottom you can unclip the tweeter tower. Because of the short wires I did have to cut and resolder them, but I didn't have to break or glue anything, so all in all I'm pretty happy. Posting this for reference in case this **** ever happens to anyone else.

 

[wew lad 5,000+ posts]

nice

i stand corrected, in some circumstances i guess you can get it out lol if it was jammed further down in the gap you'd be screwed