Sun Jan 12, 2014 12:21 am
Sorry I'm late to the party-I've been busy shouting orders to Drew Brees and the Saints, but they ignored my wisdom so now they're out of the playoffs.
Anyway, I am one of the "mouthpiece complainers." Contrary to what the wife says, I have a little mouth (and probably a funny shaped head) which causes two issues for me with the usual double hose mouthpiece configuration. The typical alignment (mouthpiece facing the can when sitting on a table) put a bit of stress on my bite. Adjusting the hoses slightly out of alignment solved that issue. The other problem I have is the standard double hose mouthpiece chafes my gums. No amount of adjusting seems to solve that problem; but Allan and Luis came up with an effective solution by modifying an hourglass mouthpiece to accommodate a single hose style mouthpiece. One could probably install just about any style mouthpiece on the modified unit, so that problem is solved. The only minus I found was it was not quite as secure as I would have liked, but again, it was the prototype.
One more thing to bring into the discussion is the use of hose weights. As noted in the picture, the hose loop I used in CZM had the weights installed. The idea is to counter the additional moment added by the length of the mouthpiece. However, when the mouthpiece is in position (in the mouth) I'm not sure there is that much more length exposed to be concerned about. The operative term is "not sure" because I did not remove the weights, so I'm looking forward to other's comments.
Lastly, like James, I've recently picked up a PVC T-fitting to experiment with......
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