Flapper for Exhaust

[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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