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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Technical Tips, Builds, and Help => Topic started by: Quickj on April 06, 2022, 08:43:45 pm

Title: Re: Steam Whistle Build.
Post by: Raphael on April 09, 2022, 03:11:31 am

Bonjour jim,
I would have been happy to test your whistle on one of my boilers but unfortunately, we are not especially close to each other  ;D 

Title: Re: Steam Whistle Build.
Post by: Quickj on April 08, 2022, 04:02:37 pm

Raphael,

I can only Hope and pray that one day I will have a Boiler that will produce enough steam to run my larger engines.  In the meantime, my compressor will have to do.  I know that Live Steam behaves very differently than compressed air, and that steam engines and steam whistles perform much better with the proper "fluid".

Jim In Minnesota.

Title: Re: Steam Whistle Build.
Post by: Raphael on April 08, 2022, 03:50:49 pm

Bonjour Jim,
A whistle running on air is not obviously running on steam, to be tester with  ;) 

Title: Re: Steam Whistle Build.
Post by: txlabman on April 08, 2022, 03:12:43 pm

Sounds great Jim.

Title: Re: Steam Whistle Build.
Post by: Quickj on April 08, 2022, 12:04:16 pm

Here is mine, on air.

https://youtube.com/shorts/MyjAt2-8E5s (https://youtube.com/shorts/MyjAt2-8E5s)







Jim in Minnesota

Title: Re: Steam Whistle Build.
Post by: Raphael on April 08, 2022, 10:05:01 am

Bonjour Jom,
Well done and you should be able to adjust it by screwing and unscrewing the body of the whistle on its rod.

Title: Re: Steam Whistle Build.
Post by: Quickj on April 08, 2022, 09:59:12 am

Arnold, 
Very cool.  Sounds great on Steam.  Looks like you built it almost exactly the same as Mine!

Jim in Minnesota

Title: Re: Steam Whistle Build.
Post by: tenniV11 on April 08, 2022, 08:42:51 am

Just made one for fun -
and tried out on a Maerklin
sorry the sound from iPhone
Arnold ;D

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https://youtube.com/shorts/59lxNAKe8nM

Title: Re: Steam Whistle Build.
Post by: txlabman on April 08, 2022, 07:31:38 am

I can't wait to see the video Jim!

Title: Re: Steam Whistle Build.
Post by: Quickj on April 07, 2022, 06:33:44 pm

I am going to do a YouTube short video tomorrow of the whistle.  I will put it here when I publish it. I'll be blowing it on air.

Arnold, Material is steel (does anyone make these small cartridges from Brass?  That would be awesome!)  Not sure what size this is.  It was actually a cylinder from my MicroNox torch.

Pretty easy to make.  I actually made two yesterday but didn't like the 1st one.  The thread for the valve is 1/4-40 ME thread.  Could just as easily be 1/4-32. The hardest part was the little decorative acorn nut on the top.

Jim in Minnesota.

Title: Re: Steam Whistle Build.
Post by: Woe is me on April 07, 2022, 04:50:56 pm

Have about 100 of those cylinders. I knew they'd come in handy for something.

Title: Re: Steam Whistle Build.
Post by: txlabman on April 07, 2022, 02:23:26 pm

Interesting.  I was watching Alan's video last night and was thinking the exact same thing.

At the beginning of the video, I thought he was making a steam whistle.

Nice work Jim!

Title: Re: Steam Whistle Build.
Post by: tenniV11 on April 07, 2022, 01:56:12 pm

That is a clever idea - did you used a 12 or
a 88 gramm co2 cartridge. Material is steel?
congrats - nice work, Arnold

Title: Re: Steam Whistle Build.
Post by: Raphael on April 07, 2022, 03:57:52 am

Bonjour Jim,

Bravo ! I can't wait to hear it also  ;)

Title: Re: Steam Whistle Build.
Post by: St Paul Steam on April 06, 2022, 09:05:45 pm

Nicely done Jim , lets give it a toot.

Title: Re: Steam Whistle Build.
Post by: Nick on April 06, 2022, 08:53:48 pm

I would love to hear it on live steam too  ;)  Looks great!

Title: Steam Whistle Build.
Post by: Quickj on April 06, 2022, 08:43:45 pm

A guy on youTube channel Retro Steam Tech posted a video this morning of a Bottle opener that he made from a couple of spent C02 cylinders.  I had commented to him that his video gave me an idea for spent cylinders, so I went down in the shop and made this;

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It needs a proper steam whistle valve, but it sounds nice on compressed air.  I would love to hear it on live steam.

Jim in Minnesota