Train Whistle

[Anonymous]

Sandy

You know I was picthing that idea around in my head and thinking of sizing it up!

[SandyR]

Bluebonnet, how about buying one of those wooden train whistles and carefully cutting it apart to see how the 'working end' is made? I know that the problem would come in building a regular steam-type whistle with the 'bowl' at the bottom. Without a set of drawings to work from, there's no way to know how it is constructed.
But the wooden whistles seem to use a different system, which would certainly lend itself to being replicated in something PVC-compatible.
And those wooden whistles usually sell for around $4.95, so it wouldn't be an extravagance. I think Schrader's has them in their catalog.
SandyR

[Anonymous]

2 weeks in search now [:D]

[Anonymous]

Well I think everything has clamed down bit here.
So I would have it for open houses.
Besides I go to work at 4:30 am and is away for me to let my buddy across the street know I am going to work also [:-,]

[Anonymous]

BB71, I kew you were up to something[:-,] What are you going to do with it when it's made?

Greedy People do suck!

[Anonymous]

Sandy,

Seen it but a no go [V] sadly... Thank you for the link.

Well Capt. I am tryn to make one out of PVC pipe.
I know you can do it cause I seen several but the man will not let off his drawings cause he sells them on ePay. He normaly starts them off at 1.00 and then they run up to 100.00s of dollars. Just for PVC and black paint and some mesurments + the brass topper and the hoock up.

To heck with it [:(!]
Greedy people make me SICK!

[Anonymous]

Most Train signal-wistles I've heard here in South Texas are in the G chord, save for the Mexican Locomotives that are F to Fmin chords.

G-C-F# -American

F-A-C or F-A Flat-C

[SandyR]

Bluebonnet, while this isn't a plan, it is a cutaway view of an actual whistle:
http://www.whistleman.com/html/how_whistles_work.html
I'll keep looking...This turned up on Google when I searched: three chime steam whistle plans.
SandyR

[Anonymous]

No one has ever seen a link on a 3 chime steam whistle?
Or does any one have one?

[Anonymous]

No mate I'm sorry i don't. i'm not even sure what you mean.

Ian

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have a indepth diagram and take down diagram of any train whistle?