[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='524234' date='Jun 25 2009, 11:09 PM']Friction and sealing. Hard to get a seal between moving parts without lots of friction, and you don't wanna be oiling your cab between songs.[/quote]
I still don't understand why a seal is important around the edges. As for the lubrication, there's something called teflon these days, isn't there?