Flapper for Exhaust

[mark1]

Hey that sounds like the ole soda can,tennis ball bazooka. anyone made one lately? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Brack]

My gosh, there's someone else who remembers steel tennis ball cans?!! I've tried explaining the pleasures of launching tennis balls with lighter fluid but sadly, I guess this has been replaced by "huffing" today :-(

 

[Richard]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( the pleasures of launching tennis balls with lighter fluid but sadly, I guess this has been replaced )</font>


We put together one of those spud launchers out of schedule 40 pvc.

Was cool having target practice in the field seeing who could hit a fence line a couple hundred feet away.

 

[Varmintmist]

STEP AWAY FROM THE FLAPPPER

I hate those things. The father insisted on one on his tractor, now it rattles and pings so bad that you cant hear yourself think unless you are at PTO speeds so the exaust holds the ---- thing open and still.

Put a can on it or get a curved muffler extension, anything but the flapper.

 

[EddieWalker]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( STEP AWAY FROM THE FLAPPPER

I hate those things. The father insisted on one on his tractor, now it rattles and pings so bad that you cant hear yourself think unless you are at PTO speeds so the exaust holds the ---- thing open and still.

Put a can on it or get a curved muffler extension, anything but the flapper. )</font>

I agree with this. I put one on and wished I never did. Luckily it fell apart in about a week of steady use. It came from TSC, so I wouldn't reckomend them either.

What an aweful, never ending racket!!!!

 

[Indydirtfarmer]

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What an aweful, never ending racket!!!!


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That's not a nice thing to say about my wife.....

Oh wait, that wasn't what you were talking about, was it?

 

[froggy]

I got mine at my local case dealer. Put it on with the hinge on backwards.

 

[Syncro]

<font color="blue">"Hey that sounds like the ole soda can,tennis ball bazooka. anyone made one lately? " </font>

You gotta tell me about this one, tennis balls and lighter fluid? How does that work? We used to use firecrackers (thats before fun was made illegal) under a tin can and launch them into the next county, but tennis balls is a new one to me.

As for a good flapper, of all the things we used what worked best was a cast iron 2" (or smaller) threaded fuel cap, the kind used on fuel storage tanks. It would fly open on start up and stay put with no rattles. You had to manually flip it closed though because it was not spring loaded. My dad threaded the exhaust stack, but for the thinner stacks used these days a threaded coupling welded on would work.

 

[Soundguy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Put a can on it or get a curved muffler extension, anything but the flapper. )

I agree with this. I put one on and wished I never did. Luckily it fell apart in about a week of steady use. It came from TSC, so I wouldn't reckomend them either.

What an aweful, never ending racket!!!! )</font>

I've had the exact opposite experience. I've had at least 3 or 4 flappers from TSC for my various tractors.

They have all worked great.. Seems they stay flipped full or near full open even at idle. Heck.. even my little 62ci Allis chalmers G can keep the flap cap open at idle.. no rattles

I've had to deal with rusted out stacks due to water entering those 'flaired pieces' In my opinion.. they don't block enough water to be usefull. My only trsctor with a stack that still has the flair is my 7610s.. and it's only because I havn't sawed it square and added one.. I keep a 1 litre soda bottle on it as it is right now.

Soundguy

 

[mark1]

Yep the ole tennis ball bazzuka used to be a have to have item..you took 5 or 6 of the old style pop cans (steel top and bottom),cut top and bottom out of all but the bottom one.(you need the bottom) Tape em together to form a tube.punched a small hole near the bottom,squirt a little lighter fluid in and add a tennis ball,aim, hold match by hole in bottom."WHAMMO" a good one would fire 2-300 ft.
I guess they are actually Illegal in some areas as they ain't the safest toy to have????

Now about that Flapper that this post was "supposed" to be about..yeh I took mine off too,,NOISEY ole thing /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[Syncro]

<font color="blue"> "Yep the ole tennis ball bazzuka......." </font>

SHAZAM! I gotta try this. Since you say the tennis ball tubes are no longer available how bout a piece of 2" pipe with a threaded end with an apple instead of a tennis ball. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Naw..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[KentT]

If you really live out in the boonies, try a galvanized pipe (2.5" ? or 3" -- can't remember!) driven into the ground at about a 60-degree angle, drop in a lit Cherry Bomb or M-80, then a golf ball... and try to keep an eye on the golf ball as it goes completely outta sight...

Big farms on gravel roads with grass growing up between the tire tracks was a great way to grow up!

 

[Bird]

With all the noise of the engine running, implements running, etc., what's a little rattle from the exhaust flapper? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif I had one on my B7100, liked it and never had any problem with it. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Varmintmist]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( With all the noise of the engine running, implements running, etc., what's a little rattle from the exhaust flapper? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif )</font>

Just enough to give that headache the extra edge it craves. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Honestly, the rattle can drown out the engine and brush hog combined at anything less than wide open. The flapper doesnt close, it just rattles on the bar it uses for a hinge. I cut a stick and jam it open when I have to run his for a long time.

 

[mark1]

Ok now that we've completly lost the main topic. I'll elaborate a bit. the second pop can down you needed to open with the ole style can opener all around the edge because you needed a lip to hold the ball.Now actually any pipe will work just put a screw or something thru the pipe to have the ball rest on. Actually a threaded pipe might even be safer than all the cans taped together.you can expieriment with items to blow out.apples.potatoes,tennis balls, kids toys??Just remember don't do anything unsafe???Yeh right! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
I'd like to try the M-80 and golf ball one but Here in NY M-80's are Il'legal,I know so is the pop can cannon?? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[Richard]

The tennis ball cannon might/might not be legal (I'd doubt it, ESPECIALLY with today's aluminum can's /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif)

Anyways, we had a potato launcher and were shooting a bag of potatoes into the field when up the driveway walked Andy, the Dept. of Wildlife guy (I think is his department).

He thought someone was poaching. He looked at the contraption we had, laughed & said have fun.

For those who don't know (and I don't remember the specifics)

Scheduel 40, something like 2 or 2 1/2" tube about 60" long. At the end of it was a 4" piece that had a gas grill pizo installed as an igniter. Used hairspray. Evidently VO5 was considered best. Put about a 3 second shot into the 4" container, screw the cleanout back in TIGHTLY (the potatoe was already ramed down the bore) click the igniter and FALOOOOOM, off goes the tater. nice thing is you don't have to go retrive it. It will biodegrade unlike the tennisball.

Oh, also the leading edge of the 2" (or was it 2 1/2?) was filed down to a thin edge so the pvc would slice through the tater and slough the unused portion off. It would cut a clean 2 (or was it 2 1/2?) inch slug out of the offending spud.

I'd MUCH prefer to tinker with one of these rather than a tennis ball cannon, again, I don't think today's cans are really up to that rigor (not that they ever were back when but they were stronger than today)

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We ought to start a spud thread & leave this one alone /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[whitetiger]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( TSC, Agri-Supply, SHoup, Valu-Bilt, Sloan Express, Most any equipment dealer.....

On the same topic.... (This is like the over/under thing with toilet paper) Flap opens forward/backward??????

I prefer the "hinge" to the rear. BUT.... A couple of my tractors are turbo-charged. They get trailered from time to time. It's best to have the hinge FORWARD, so the wind pushes the flap down. That prevents air being forced down the exhaust stack, which can spin the turbo impeller (in SOME cases).

There's a dozen theories on why this does happen/can't happen/shouldn't happen/happened to me. )</font>



<font color="blue"> </font> The turbo can not be spun by air entering the exhaust pipe. Both the intake and exhaust valve would have to be open on the same cyclinder at the same time for the air to pass through and spin the turbo. It is just an old wives tale.

 

[LBrown59]

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<font color="blue"> "Yep the ole tennis ball bazzuka......." </font>

SHAZAM! I gotta try this. Since you say the tennis ball tubes are no longer available how bout a piece of 2" pipe with a threaded end with an apple instead of a tennis ball. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Naw..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>

That sounds more like an applesauce maker.

 

[LBrown59]

Anybody ever make the old carbide bombs.?

 

[LBrown59]

Anybody ever make the old carbide bombs.?

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