Lawrence Beach posted: >>Has anyone tried locating buzzes with a stethoscope? ...<< There is a tool I purchased years ago designed specifically for using like a stethoscope in finding noises. It is based on an old idea I learned in the sixties. You take a long screwdriver blade and handle, place the blade where you think the problem is and place your ear against the handle. When you locate the position of the offending noise, it will travel through the screwdriver blade and handle to your ear audibly. This tool I purchased uses the stethoscope concept except there is a pointer type device (about 9", aluminum) that is connected to a crude diaphram device which is connected to a clear plastic tube which splits into a "Y" that goes to your ears. Bought it via a mail order catalog like Brookstone, etc. Haven't used it too much, but it definitely works. Very effective, almost too much, as there is no volume control. Keith A. McGavern, RPT Oklahoma Chapter 731 Oklahoma Baptist University Shawnee, Oklahoma
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