This might be a good deal for you.
http://www.amazon.com/Milwaukee-49-17-3100-Bulk-Disposa...305207201&pf_rd_i=20

I'll bet they add a little chewiness in the GoLean Crunch cereal, as the ad suggests.

Wonder if the $23.50 is for the new or the used. I sure don't want used cereal, don't really want used ear plugs either, but absolutely no used cereal!!!!!

Be sure to get the cordless scissors and pillow like everyone else does!

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Originally posted by epj:
don't really want used ear plugs either

Used ear plugs are't so bad. Every once in a while I have a pair go through the washer and drier, and they come out just fine. . .

Of course, they're going back into the same ears that used them in the first place.



I know Kashi cereal is nice and crunchy, but I didn't think it was all that LOUD.

I always use the full size ear protector and not the small plugs because lot of the noise will reach the interior of your ears via the outer part of the ear through the scull bone around the ear and may causage damage to your inner part of the ear.

Those ear plugs limit the sound by 29 decibels. I use some that limit the sound by 32 decibels, made by AOSafety for people working around construction equipment. I get them cheap in sheets of 100 from a hardware store. And, if I'm going to be shooting at a range, I wear earmuff style hearing protectors in addition.

One thing to consider when comparing function is that the decibel scale is not linear. Every decibel is ten times the quantity of sound of the next lower decibel. So the three decibels extra I get in my earplugs over those advertised on Amazon is not the same quantity of sound suppression as the distance from, say, decibels 27 through 29, it's ten times that amount. Or something like that.

What that also means is that the effect of using both kinds is not additive, it's multiplicative, in effect.

The sound intensity scale is logarithmic. An increase of one bel (not decibel - there are 10 decibels in a bel) corresponds to an order of magnitude (i.e., 10X) increase in sound intensity.

So, an increase in sound intensity from, say, 80 to 90 decibels (8 to 9 bels) represents a 10-fold gain. Increasing again from 90 to 100 decibels represents a 100-fold increase over 80 decibels, etc. The change in intensity is always a factor of 10 raised to the power of the number of bels increase (or decrease).

A change from 27 to 29 decibels is an increase of 0.2 bels, so the gain in sound intensity is 10^0.2, or about 1.6 times. Another way to look at is the difference in sound suppression between plugs or muffs rated -29 db and those rated -32 dB is 10^0.3 (equal to about 2.0), which means the -32 db plugs/muffs are about twice as effective as the -29 dB ones. By extension, no matter where on the decibel scale a particular sound falls, a 3 dB increase or decrease represents a doubling or halving (respectively) of the sound intensity.

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what brand is that specific ear plug you get in sheets at the hardware store? Is is available in one of the national chain hardware store like ACE.

These were on sale, $14. when I posted.
Only passing on a deal for those who used these.
I didn't think this would keep going.
Let it die.
Sale is over.

All of this math makes me nauseous.

GOlean...what an innocuous name for such a nuclear powered breakfast food.

The real name should be GOoften, or GOunexpectedly, perhaps even GOaheadandtrustafartstupid!

I'll never eat that cereal before an important meeting again...