[Cudwell]

Hi - I noticed a small dark patch in the digital display panel of my radio the other day. On closer inspection it became evident that this was a small spider (or beetle) - slowly building a little cocoon!

I tapped the front of the display and sure enough the little bugger started scuttling around within the display!

Is there an easy way of accessing this area in order to get it out - without having to fork out cash to have it done?
It's not affecting the functioning of the unit - but it may eventually take over my display and it is a bit annoying (not to say creepy)!!

Thanks
Cudwell

[Sonic67]

Send in a bird to catch the spider?

[ProfessorYaffle]

Surely a radio display isn't going to sustain an insect community going forward?

Wait until starvation takes it's toll.

Alternatively, sell it on eBay as "A radio with built-in web functionality"

[Thirst4Know]

This reminds me of those (highly apocryphal) tales of "beetle watches" from the post-war markets of Hong Kong and Singapore that stopped shortly after purchase because the peripatetic insect inside that drove the hands had succumbed...
On a more serious note, it's generally best not to disturb LCD's too much unless you're accustomed to this sort of thing- even something apparently innocuous like removing the clear plastic cover to release an insect may disturb the finnicky connections between the PCB and the actual glass LCD element, resulting in missing/intermittent display characters on re-assembly- it really can be a case of "never quite the same again". These Pure radios aren't the quickest and easiest to dismantle/get at/re-assemble from the point of view of labour time/cost- I've had a Tempus-1 for some years now, and jolly good it's been too, but it strikes me that a bit more effort in the production engineering aspect would have brought the cost down.
I'm guessing that this real-life bug got in through the acoustic port "chimney" underneath, as all the connection sockets are sealed types- maybe a bit of net-curtain material, or whatever, taped over it would bar future inquisitive invertebrates without affecting sound quality. As the Prof. hints, the web is unlikely to get much bigger... I'm sure Damian Hurst would find it all deeply symbolic.