That’s what I was thinking, certainly would rack up a couple of thousand…
Zolo liberty volume fix!
Good job! I love taking stuff apart. and yes, another vote for a YouTube video 
Great job, I like taking apart tech and love it even more when I can fix it. Would love to see a video or pics of it.
Could you upload photos if possible?
Here are some pictures, sorry not all of them came out. apparently some of them were too blury.
Here is the gold mesh
Gold mesh removed…cloth cover revealed, yup all gunked up
Cloth cover removed
Gunk inside
Gunk removed
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Smoker’s fingers?
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Sorry about my dirty hands and fingers, no longer a smoker haven’t smoked since last year. Just workers hands, had to do some work on the car as it’s snowing now and had to work quickly. Didn’t really wash my hands when I did this. Just jumped right into it
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Yes I am very familiar with curry fingers, love me some curry chicken.
@AnkerOfficial any chance you can pass along my findings to the Zolo team to make them aware of the excess glue or whatever that black Gunk is? It’s not from earwax or anything from the body as the mesh screen and cloth trap everything and this was on the inside
The earbuds are suppose to have a Nano coating and the way it’s sealed, along with the button and it’s rubber coating helps to seal it off. The cloth covering is most likely to prevent addition stuff from getting past the mesh screen and entering into the sound chamber
Here you can see the zolo button cover removed
And here you can see the clear button has a rubber sleeve underneath that also prevent water/sweat intrusion from how it is affixed. And inside the circuit board…sorry for the blurry pic
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Don’t mind your fingers.
Better to have “honest worker fingers” which are able to do such a difficult work than to have manicured ones which can do nothing.
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If you intend to do more of such repairs in the future I would recommend such a magnifier.
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A video would have been better had I thought about it at the time. As it was the pictures were almost an after thought too when my wife told e I should take pictures so I can put it back together properly, lol. Luckily I didn’t break it down all the way so it’s rather easy to put back together and I got to share the pics with folks here
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Good pictures my friend. Don’t worry about the fingers, most of the hands on diy/tech guys (myself included) don’t always have the best hands/fingers through work… 
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thanks for the clear explanation, i now have a working pair of headphones again!
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Glad it’s working for you again.
Hopefully @AnkerTechnical and @AnkerOfficial can report this to Zolo so they can work on a fix
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Hi elmo,
this is a great guide, thanks for posting it. My buds have just started with the same issue in the left ear. I may give your solution a go depending on what the Zolo support team say…
What tools did you use to disassemble the gold mesh and cloth?
How do you make sure they don’t fall off again when you re-assemble the earbuds?
Thanks in advance,
Alan
I use a pair of precision pointed tweezers, the kind you use for delicate parts handling. But realistically you can use anything with a point to get the edge up and then peel it off carefully. I initially did not reinstall the gold mesh back, but after a week I went back and put it back in. The reason being is I sweat a lot and that heled prevent sweat getting inside. I just used a dab of glue on a piece of paper, and using the tweezers to hold the mesh I rolled the edge of the mesh slightly into the glue. It was just enough to get it to hold and not impede sound
Hello Elmo,
What type of glue did you use when you reassembled the headphones?