Chuff pipe making

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Chuff pipe making

Post by Big Jim » Sun Sep 18, 2016 5:14 pm

I know that Summerland Chuffed are the bees knees, but now being a skint student again I would like to have a go at making my own.
I have seen a description of how to make and exhaust enhancer in an old magazine, but I can't find the damn thing now.
Anyone got any plans or descriptions. If I remember it was just a question of crimping the end of the pipe and filing a slot in it. However I can't remember if there was anything more technical to it.

tuppenced

Post by tuppenced » Sun Sep 18, 2016 11:26 pm

This is an accidental chuff pipe, Jim.

The essence of the Summerland is that the exhaust is squirted across a sharp edge inside the chimbley (not the smokebox), while the smokebox provides a Helmholtz Resonator to deepen the tone (like the drum of a referee's whistle).
(There, I've told you the technical bit now.)

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Post by Big Jim » Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:43 am

Thanks for that.
I shall have a play around

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