{"id":114,"date":"2012-10-28T19:14:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T02:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2012-10-28T19:31:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T02:31:12","slug":"homemade-leak-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/homemade-leak-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Leak Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For occasional home use, it&#8217;s handy for a sax player to be able to check for pad leaks. Here&#8217;s one I built for just a few dollars, it&#8217;s long enough to check my bari and skinny enough I don&#8217;t have to remove any pads to use it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Leak_Light.jpg\" alt=\"Leak Light\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I started with a coat-hanger, straightened it out and bent a small crook at one end.<br \/>\nI wrapped it with two-strand wire. The gauge is not too important. Both voltage and current are low.<\/p>\n<p>At the unbent end, I soldered a battery adapter. 9-volt is convenient because you can just clip it on to turn it on.<\/p>\n<p>At the bent end, I glued a grain of wheat bulb. I used a 12 volt lamp with wire leads. Using it with a 9-volt battery will help it last forever.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Leak_Light_Bulb.jpg\" alt=\"Leak Light Bulb\" width=\"600\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The main down-side is you have to use it in a dark room. Works for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For occasional home use, it&#8217;s handy for a sax player to be able to check for pad leaks. Here&#8217;s one I built for just a few dollars, it&#8217;s long enough to check my bari and skinny enough I don&#8217;t have to remove any pads to use it. I started with a coat-hanger, straightened it out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}