"If you want to make it quieter, I'd appreciate it," Jake added, then smiled to himself. "I reckon everyone that's heard this would thank you. It's nowhere near silent."
As proof, he connected the power supply to the motor once more and turned it on. The resulting noise was annoying, and very familiar to Jake. "I had to make do with what we had, and what we had was this," he explained. "I could never work out what made it so damn noisy. Even Hope used to comment on them."