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Do It Yourself custom earplugs - great buy

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This kit will let you make your own custom earplugs for about a third to a half of what you would pay to have an audiologist do it at a bike or gun show. I had a custom set made at Daytona a couple of years ago and then lost one of them last summer. I was looking for someone to make another set when I came across this product.

The company is in UK. I think it was around $30 altogether. They send you two goopy little masses, one orange and one white that you separate into three parts each and then combine one part of each into a ball. After the two parts are combined the hardening process begins. You press the ball into your ear following their instructions. It takes about 5 minutes and then you let it cure in you ear for 15 minutes. You have a plug custom made that seems to work as well or better than the ones I had done professionally.

They send you enough for three ears so you can screw up the first one you do learning and still get two right to have a set. It's really not that hard; you just wad the stuff up and stick in your ear. We got all three correct so I was able to make a replacement for the plug I lost last summer and now have two custom sets. This product seems to work as advertised.

http://www.diycustomplugs.co.uk/diy_ear_plugs.shtml
 
What a great idea! Joe and Cathy (Nardy) had some custom plugs done that include buds for plugging in their intercom/satellite radio/Ipods/etc, and they like 'em a lot. I wouldn't be at all surprised if you could use this kit to make two plugs and then use the extra material to custom mold some plugs and duplicate the kind of sound-buds Joe and Cathy have... I may have to try this!

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Like you, Don, I have a problem ear canal. I am ordering these now. The foam disposables really irratate my ear after insertion/removal, and the re-useables don't seem to fit snug enough to be effective. Thanks for the heads up!
 
Ordered mine right after my last post. I've always had very sensitive ears, and I can't stand having anything in them or even on them. I'm cautiously optimistic that this will be a decent alternative, especially after reading some testimonials from people with similar issues...

Looking forward to it!
 
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That type of plug has been around for about 35 years (I had 2 sets made when I worked in a plywood mill). The ones I had were made by General Electric and I'll bet you can find them in the U.S. for way less than $30....by the way, I still have one set left but lost the other.8-[
 
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