Two years ago when I saw (and heard) one of those, I went right to West Marine to buy one. There were two left on the shelf. I asked to sales person if I could test it. We did everything and couldn't get it to "blow". We tried the other one, and out of many, many attempts got is to blow maybe twice. She called the store manager and he said that they should have been taken off the shelf. Apparently all that had been purchased (a lot) had been returned. There were many reasons for their failure, but the most common was the thin plastic diaphragm (kind of like suran wrap) was totally exposed and punctured easily thus rending it useless. I believe West Marine intended to discontinue the product unless the quality was improved. The number of purchases and returnes became too much for them. Debbie Reeves Sandy Hook, NJ > ---------- > From: Joe Pylka[SMTP:pylka_at_castle.net] > > A friend found something in a marine store that he uses as a signaling > device. It's a short pipe with a cap on one end for a plastic diaphragm. > You blow into the side of the thing. What comes out sounds as though the > Staten Island Ferry is about to run you over. So not only is this thing > loud, but it's different enough from a whistle to make someone look around > to see what the heck is about to hit him. > > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Jun 13 1999 - 09:22:37 PDT
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