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Wax ear plugs out of the box and forming Packaging, instructions and wrapped in tissue paper strips wax Wax earplugs ( MWD-11) The oldest earplugs that I know. You can purchase them nearly in every drugstore – cheap as chips. Theoretically you can use them many times. They are made from cotton soaked in the wax mixture, paraf- fin and petrolatum with an addition of coloring agent. Packed in the longitudinal, hermetic package made of the silver foil, inside additionally wrapped in a piece of lignin. They have a form of two strips and they look like chewing gum. There is sure that they do not have sizes. In order to use these earplugs you must adjust a suita- ble amount of the mixture (by tearing off a piece from the strip, but carefully – a producer forbids to "add" again the piece which was torn off due to a possibility of its separation in the ear canal). Then by pressing down you are to warm them and mold a plug from them, which is then introduced to the ear canal. In the case of the MWD-11 plugs an attenuation level is equal to SNR 26 dB (H=29, M=22, L=20). They attenu- ate really well and there is no reason to worry about hearing impairment. Unluckily, they cause that we hear worse all sounds – also speech sounds so you have to speak louder in order to be heard by a person with the earplugs. Theoretically, the earplugs can be used many times until they are dirty. In reality, they will be dirty proba- bly after the first shooting, and moreover – who would take with him a piece of cotton soaked with soft wax which was taken out from the ear, and worth about half a buck? Their disadvantage, rather significant, consists in a scope of their temperature sensitivity – when there is frosty, molding a plug can take some time, and after inserting it into the ear, an external part of the plug hardens what is rather unpleasant. After all: they can be used as the emergency disposal earplugs. www.fragoutmag.com