XPost: sci.electronics.design, alt.audio.equipment   
   From: Winston@BigBrother.net   
      
   Phil Hobbs wrote:   
   > Winston wrote:   
   >> Phil Hobbs wrote:   
   >>   
   >> (...)   
   >>   
   >>> One approach would be to make a casting of the outer part of your ear   
   >>> canal with something like ShapeLok. I've been meaning to try that   
   >>> myself.   
   >>   
   >> One would want to cast around a hollow plastic tube   
   >> to vent air back into the canal in order to avoid   
   >> an ER visit to remove the finished casting... :)   
   >>   
   >> --Winston   
   >>   
   >   
   > I wasn't suggesting pushing it all the way down to the eardrum, silly.   
      
   I didn't figure you were.   
   Casting a piston to the inside of the ear   
   canal and then removing it is gonna cause   
   a significant vacuum.  Sounds painful, at least.   
   At worst, a burst eardrum and inner ear   
   infection?  Ewww!   
      
   --Silly Winston   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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