Praise A Little 3 1/2 year old solved my problem... lol.

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MitchelC

MitchelC

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I have a Mitre-Mite VN42. A few days ago i started hearing a "ssssssssss....".... an air leak i tried to find, but couldn't. After i closed today my neighbor came over just to chat and i told him about the air leak. He offered to check it out and find where the leak was. We went in the shop area, raised it off the floor and put it laying flat on a work table. He tried everything, even sprayed a lot of Dawn mixed with water all over the place to create bubbles to pin point the leak. That didn't work either. Then... his 3 1/2 year old daughter came in singing in her Karaoke in her "GPX - Party Machine CD+G Karaoke System" (Cost: about $40.00). She was watching us and after a couple of minutes she asked her daddy what were we trying to do. Her daddy told here there is an air leak and we were trying to find it. She suggested: "Use my Karaoke mike to make it noisier." Smart kid... with that suggestion, we laughed and were able to find the air leak using her Karaoke mike in about 20 seconds :thumbsup: ! Sound travels and the leak was found behind the air pressure gauge knob (one of the airline connections), which was far away from where we both took for granted the leak would be. Again, smart kid! :beer:
 
I have used a piece of hose like a stethoscope to find a leak on a VN-2, but this is a little more low-tech/high-tech version of that.
Phil at ITW tech support might like to hear about that one. :thumbsup:
 
Smart little girl. :thumbsup:
 
You should be able to pick up "Mr Microphone" for just a couple of bucks at Christmas time. After finding the leak we can drive along the strip on Ocean Blvd and say to the cute girls "Hey Good Looking We'll be Back to Pick You Up Later". :p
 
Framar said:
What a great kid!!! You need to find a special "thank you" gift for her!!! :thumbsup:
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When the little girl came in with her Karaoke she was singing a song I really liked. I asked her who the artist was and what was the name of the song. She said her favorite singer was "Ashton Shepherd" (a country singer i never :shrug: heard of) and the song was "Where Country Grows". Her father said she has EVERY Ashton Shepherd CD on the market. I asked him if his daughter had and Ashton Shepherd posters. He said no... him and his wife never though about getting one. I told him NOT to get one, I'll find one, frame it, and give it to her BEFORE Christmas (I don't want her to feel it's a Christmas gift.). This is it, the ONLY one i could find. I got it on eBay. I should receive it by the end of the week. I will give it to her Sunday when her family and mine get together to bar-b-que, watch a football game, and drink a couple of beers. :smiley:
 
Nice! Smart kid... I love creative ways to solve quirky problems.

When I interned at a recording studio, they had a water boiler that had a leak at the top. It just would drip about once per second, of the top and down the side to the floor. Not enough to flood the place, but enough to be concerned and needing cleaning up once a day. I told them "Gimme some tape and I'll make it a little better". They handed me tape saying "you can't tape a leak, ya know...". ...indeed. But I didn't want to tape the leak. I wanted to create a slide. I dried the side of the water heater where the drips were traveling, put a 5' piece of packaging tape on part of the side where water traveled, and attached the other end of the tape to a bucket. So the drips would slide down the side of the water heater, slide down the tape which lifted off the heater and towards a bucket, and slide right into the bucket. It would take a month to fill that bucket up. They were amused at how simply that fixed it for the short term.

Sometimes the "kids" earn their keep. ;)
 
I have an old set of the cheesy plastic stethoscope-type headphones you used to use for listening to music on an airline flight. The plug end has two openings that went into a double hole in the armrest, which contained tiny speakers. This crude device works well to pinpoint air leaks under the machine, because the double opening gives a stereo effect which enhances directional indication. Low tech but effective.
:cool: Rick
 
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