stupid sanding tip

[Tom O'Shea]

My stupid tip of the day: if your head is inside a Tuba HT while you're sanding glue residue and wearing headphone-style hearing protectors, it's not a good idea to let the hearing protectors rest against the box.

Whoa! All that rumble goes right into your headbone, skipping the ears altogether.

Kind of a rush, though. Maybe I'll try it again tomorrow....

Is being easily amused a blessing or a curse?

Tom O'Shea

[bgavin]

Did you ride the Short bus as a kid?

[Art Coates]

A horn works like a huge "ear" just as well as it increases output efficiency reminds me of a short article I saw the other day - one of the predecessors to radar technology:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_War_Tuba

[Sydney]

There is a PBS special run this season about RADAR that show those "concrete ears" that lined the coastline of Britain installed, in secret after WWI. The listener sat in a underground room and could hear airplanes @ 20 miles - Ample time to scramble RAF.

[Bill Fitzmaurice]

My stupid tip of the day: if your head is inside a Tuba HT while you're sanding glue residue

Don't sand it, scrape it off with a sharp chisel. Fast, easy, no sawdust.

[DJ Big Ronn]

+1 If you cant see it, dont even scrape it. Only sand visible parts unless you are really bored. I like to spend the extra time building more cabs!!!!!!!!!!!!