Nightingale <stonedmonkee@juno.com> wrote:
>
>To whom it may concern,
>
>       I have 2 questions:
>
>1.  Does anybody have any good ideas on how to make a vent fan sound
>    softer?  Anybody know of any vent fans that sound soft to begin
>    with?
>
>
>2.  How do you prune and what's the point of doing it?
>
>                               Thank you in advance.

And as they were want to do, the denizens of a.d.p.c responded in kind.
Zap took the high road and pH took the low. Each of their responses appears here:

The electrician answers the fan question.

The scientist schools us in pruning.