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There you go…. Proof of iPod noise – pollution
That cord’s gonna last about 2 minutes once the muffler heats up.
Finally! A practical use for that overpriced iPod.
It’s actually a pretty great idea. Those original Apple earphones don’t last that long anyway.
it’s an iSmog
It was exhausting, but I finally figured out why all my music sounded muffled.
pipe down will ya?
jk your pun was engine-ious
Wouldn’t this be an earmuffler?
He’s got his exhaust system wired for sound now!
wont they melt or something?!
only the plastic will melt, the copperwire will hold the exhaust where it belongs.
Oh, so they are useful for something.
Can’t blame him. I love my iPod but I hate those headphones.
This is much better than those stupid fart can mufflers!
I hope that’s just holding the pipe while he finds a bracket. (The sticker on the pipe tells me it’s a pretty new install.) Those iPod headphones don’t hold up for listening to music. The trivial copper wires definitely won’t hold up to the heat and vibration of a tailpipe.
“Hmmm… maybe I DID run over that jogger.”
hmmm… this is definitely the modern answer to “Knight Rider” … a car with a rather new iPod in the glove compartment is wittier than a old Pontiac equipped with some circuit boards made by …?? (I hope the parts were filched from a robotron computer (crappy ICs made in former GDR
)
wow how times have changed. back in my day we used a wire coat hanger. this is so much easier. damn i’m getting old.
Those things last about two seconds anyways…
I don’t get the imuffler name… it is the exhaust PIPE, not muffler, shown in the picture.
My exhaust once broke while in college, and I did a last minute fix with a leather lace. It worked(but was noisy), enough to get me to the muffler shop.
Ear buds, who needs ear buds…
@Luetti
The copper wire in those things is so thin (to cut costs) that it probably wouldnt hold the muffler up.
What happened to good, old-fashioned bailing wire?
hushuehsueh
Nossa, aqui no Brasil é tão caro uma fone desses…
Não faria isso já mais.
You don’t need a muffler, those are noise cancelling ear buds.
Considering I’m in dire need of headphones… would stealing those be considered under the category of auto theft? Just curious…
that’s quite interesting, the muffler acts to suppress noise from the engine, this person used something that produces noise to support something that reduces noise. I see hear an interesting commentary on modern technology, in particular its constructive and destructive nature.
Copper has a low melting point…it may, and I stress may, hold up for a day.@Luetti
Well; it looks like i found my missing earphones.
Dude, Need to visit RadioShack for an adapter that plug wont fit….
I’m scared to see how they attached this pipe to the muffler itself…
@nnojj
I agree
@Luetti
Not that thin of wiring. It will burn right through it.
@Eric
Aca tambien son caros, pero se rompen tan rapido que solo sirven para amarrar cosas.
“Can you hear me now?”
Better to use those in ear headphones for this, because they sure don’t stay in your ears!! They are gonna melt anyway.
iwonder what happened to the ipod?
Great..problem with muffler, fixed. What happens when he wants to use his MP3 player and no head phones???
Hey, when the heat of the muffler melts the plastic it’s just going to work that much better!
Nevermind copper’s melting point, the actual wire in those would be like hair thin. The plastic is the only part with any strength. It’ll melt and the wire will snap instantly.
Wow that’s a $30 “repair” that could have been done for less than $1
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB770G/A?fnode=MTY1NDA0Ng&mco=MjE0NDgxMg
Yep, that’ll last 2 minutes. Coat hanger wire is what’s normally used for that kind of repair work. Coat hangers with just a pliers are what kept my Toyota Celica on the road for over 330,000 miles, a minimum of 100,000 _after_ the exhaust suspension rubber gromets caught fire and burned away to nothing.
for all the idiots who think they know so much about copper wires…it takes much more than the heat from an exhaust pipe to snap the wire… also have you noticed how thick it is? it´s not going to break any time soon
Who set the iPod-equalizer to “muffled”?
So it would be an i-pipe, then.
@slythorne
Copper melts at 2,000 degrees F. If your muffler is that hot, you’ve got bigger problems than holding up the exhaust pipe.
For all the idiots that think that the thickness of the insulation means how thick the wire is, some schooling:
Those exact earbuds use twin-braid 40awg micro-co-ax cabling. Once the plastic burns through, those hair-thin wires couldn’t hold a hairbrush much less a 30lb muffler nor the 100+ lb shock load of simply starting the engine. It will fail after a drive to the corner store and back.
BTW, I happen to be one of those people who “knows so much about copper wires”.
I know I miss the days when it was $3.00 per pound!
This reminds me of the time my Dad asked to borrow my roller skates when I was a kid. He tied one to the exhaust pipe and the skate wheels were made of cheap plastic and had completely worn down when he got to the garage.
Wish I had taken a photo of it for you though – that would have qualified for a There I fixed it photo!
Now THERE’S a good use for them.
awesome.
Finally, a use for them! You wouldn’t believe how many can be found just out on the street…
Now presenting….*drumroll” THE iSTRING (for all of your lazy fix-it-up needs )
I am just wondering is that exaust pipe a fence post by any chance
this is a job for a coathanger.