New toy!

[Harlock]

www.mojaveserver.info/forum-media/6chime.wmv

This is a replica SP 6-chime from Mike Daugherty of D&M in West Virginia. I plumbed it up to shop air, adapting a 3/4" line to the 1 1/2" inlet, and used a 1 1/2" ball valve from the hardware store, which works surprisingly well. I have a lead on a 1 1/2" lunkenheimer pull valve.

Adjusting for the pitch change from air, and the lack of quilling from same, and reduced flow from 3/4" lines, it sounds exactly like the one on the Sugar Pine Shay that I heard on Sunday. Too cool! I need to make a brass finale for it, and then it will be reasonably presentable. That sound has not been heard in Mojave in over 50 years! It echoed all over the spaceport and was probably audable in town faintly. Was kind of windy today.

I'll probably run it again on Saturday and place the recorder much farther away to take the harshness out of the sound and get some echo. The recording does not do it justice, it physically peaked out the microphone piezo so that even manual gain would not fix it.

--Mike

[phutcheson]

Mike

Somehow I missed this post from the 3rd.

But here is a video with sound track from my space: vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2015980749


Sounds like your getting very close. Does D&M have a web site? I googled but no luck in finding one.

Also thanks for the note that the Shays in Sugar Pine is the SP 6.

Enjoy,

Pat H

[Harlock]

Mike of D&M does not have a web site. He is a frequent poster on the Steam Whistles Yahoo Group (the most active one on the net for steam whistles). He posts as 'squibguy'.

groups.yahoo.com/group/steam-whistles/

I can PM or email you his email address if you're interested.

[phutcheson]

Went to the Yahoo group ... check message 4712.

Here is MD URL: www.mdwhistles.com/contactme.htm

I hope to spend some time with the Sound Clips, but it's late.

Pat H

[Harlock]

Phucheson: Yes that's me...outback_mike on Yahoo groups.

Here are some new recordings from between two metal buildings nearby:

www.mojaveserver.info/forum-media/whistle-run-2.wav
www.mojaveserver.info/forum-media/whistle-run-3.wav

I got distracted by co-workers who came out to see it, so I didn't get a chance to go back and check for a proper level, so these are gained up from the mud, which is why they have some noise in them. The echo sounds nice though.

My Hanc0ck 3-chime should be shipping on Monday. Going to have to build a brace to hold that thing up, it's giant. I did shorten the vertical pipe by half. I got a confirmed report of someone hearing the whistle about a mile away inside a hotel lobby. They thought it was odd not hearing it from the direction of the SP Mojave Yard. Nevermind that it's a steam whistle.

--Mike

[phutcheson]

Mike,

What a nice sound, really like the echo.
I would like to get one, but living in the city the neighbors probably would not like the train whistle ... on the other we do have train tracks about 1/2 mile away. Those whistles also sound good so just maybe...

Hope you will post your Hanc0ck recording when you set it all up.

Pat

[rangerjoel]

Very nice.
The town folk must be under the impression that there is a ghost train somwhere. ;D