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Re: Air tool mufflers

To: Chuck Rothfuss <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>
Subject: Re: Air tool mufflers
From: Don Kerr <dkveuro@pop.flash.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 11:30:24 -0600
What color is the muffler?

Chuck Rothfuss wrote:
> 
> List,
> 
>   Sorry to break up all the wonderful discussion about colors and shop
> design, but I had to pass this along before I forgot.  One of my Christmas
> gifts to myself was a new 1/4" air ratchet.  Beautiful little thing, it'll
> make me money at work, but with 150 PSI of shop air it's really loud.  Now
> maybe everyone already does this, but just in case, I've found that a
> bicycle inner tube attached over any rear exhaust air tool makes a pretty
> good muffler.  It also gives me a tad more flexability in tight spaces,
> since I can run a small flexible hose right up to the tool with the air
> chuck connection at the end of the 3' inner tube muffler.  This keeps me
> from dragging a heavy air hose up under the dash, and eliminates any
> possibility of getting air tool oil on a new cars interior.  Keeps 'em nice
> and quiet, and puts that cold exhaust away from your hands in the winter.
> 
>   ...We now resume our black vs. white discussion, already in progress.
> 
> Chuck Rothfuss
> Pole Cat Hollow, NC

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