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I asked about this in another thread, and received a good response or two. But I still have questions.

I wanted sports locks, because I have had my pop out onto the floor too many times!! And once on the sidewalk!

The main problem that causes this is juggling HAs, a mask, which comes on and off, reading glasses (on and off), and a plastic headband.

I got lots of great responses. I am still trying to figure out the best fixes. I find that I forget when I’m taking the mask off, and that is the worst culprit. Although the glasses on and off are also a bit of a problem.

But in reference to the sports locks: when the HA fitter cut the sports locks to put on my aids, I instinctively felt as I saw him do it that he was cutting them too short—even though I’d never seen them before. I was too polite to speak up. They are about 1" long.

But what happens in my ear is that they curve around inside my ear a bit and then don’t curve further, instead of curving around a bit more. Someone in the previous thread said that his were about 1-1/2" long.

Am I probably right that they are too short? Aren’t they supposed to curve around the inside of the ear a little more?

I know that I also need other fixes in addition to the sports locks, and am trying other fixes. (On the reading glasses, I am getting Scleral lenses in December, and that should fix that part).

Edit: I just went back to that previous thread, and looked again at a response and see that, indeed, it seems that I am right, that he cut the line too short, so that they don’t curve around enough to do the job.

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IDK, mine came with my receivers , my audiologist sent them to me, I don’t think they get cut. I know if I look for them there only seems to be one size, they slide onto the receivers. Im glad I have them, I would have lost my aids many times.

@DanMac

Thank you, @DanMac. How long are they from the attachment to the receiver?

Can anyone else weigh in, please, about whether I’m right that they are cut too short? Thank you.

I don’t really know if yours are too short. I can tell you that my Starkey Omega retention clips are 1 1/4 inches in length. There are different thicknesses of rention clips that make a difference in how well they hold the aids in place. I had Oticon Intents with 85 db receivers. These had a fairly thick retention clip that held them in place. I changed to a 60 db receiver and it had a thinner, but same length retention clip. This thinner clip felt flimsy and did not apply the same pressure as the thicker clip. You might want to ask for a thicker clip.

I measured mine (kinda hard since they curl) with my engineers ruler. About 43mm. Mine are Connexx Concha Locks 3.0. They are by size of your reciever, ie…S, M, P (I think these are right) Mine are for M. This amazon listing explains it a bit https://www.amazon.com/Signia-Concha-Lock-Retention-Hearing/dp/B09353S5KZ17. They have saved me a lot of trouble. I lost my right one last winter 2 weeks after I got them. My daughter found it in the deep snow with a bluetooth finder….whew. I put the locks on right then. They irritated my ears a couple of weeks but I adjusted to them. Hope this helps.

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@MikeRelaxer

@MikeRelaxer, thank you. I just measured mine, and it is 1-1/4". As I mentioned it curves a little bit in the concha, but not that much, and then pokes outwards a bit. No one else would probably notice it, but it seems to me that it would work better if it were a little longer, so it could curve around more and actually hold the aids in better.

Yes, mine is not thick, it’s fairly thin

I realized something else, too, from an audiologist’s site I looked at, he was saying that if it didn’t fit well, it could pull the domes out, especially when you chew, which is happening to me.

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Thank you, @DanMac, for measuring yours for me. Mine is 1-1/4", which is 25.4 mm, so shorter than yours.

That’s quite the story about losing an aid, and your daughter finding it in the deep snow with a Bluetooth finder!! Who knew there was such a thing? Lucky for you. Yeah, I do not want to lose mine!

If the length was customized, I would think they’re cut to length in accord with length and curve of the concha. Mine were less than 1” long.

25.4 mm is 1 inch.

@philbob57, oh, wow, I punched 1-1/4" into the online converter, when I should have written in 1.25!

Well, in any case, is does yours just curve a little, and not stick out, I would guess? And more to the point, does it keep the aids, or dome, in?

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