The fipple on my beloved generation F (the only really good sounding whistle I own) is cracked!!!
It’s down the botton where the mouthpeice comes down on the whistle and it’s not that bad right now, but it looks like it’s headed straight for the blade…
Does anybody know how I can stop it from getting worse or glue it back together or something???
[ This Message was edited by: TelegramSam on 2002-06-17 16:29 ]
The same thing happened to my beloved McHaffie whistle. I found a little bit of chewing gum, some duct tape and WD40 fixed it up nice.
Chris
well I can tell it’ll eventually go all the way through it, from bottom to top, cos there’s a shadow of a line through the plastic all the way throught it, I guess from where they put the plastic in the mold and both sides came together.
The same thing happened to all of those plastic bracelets I used to have. You’d get them and could see a small line where the two sides of the plastic came together exactly across from where the plastic was injected into the mold. They all eventually broke at that exact spot.
Out of the 6 generations I got, the one “holy grail,” hte one that actually sounds really good, turns out to be a total dud.
kicks generation company
pouts
On 2002-06-17 16:39, ChrisLaughlin wrote:
The same thing happened to my beloved McHaffie whistle. I found a little bit of chewing gum, some duct tape and WD40 fixed it up nice.
Chris
WD40???
Yeah, Bloomfield, WD40. Works like a charm. If there’s none of that on hand then mayonaise will work nearly as well.
Chris
In the liberty bell, they drilled holes in the bell to head off the cracks before they spread. The holes were to releave stress. I can’t perscribe this for a whistle, but I thought to put it to discussion. . .
I’m such a moron. Why the hell am I crying over a stupid whistle anyhow? I need to be slapped.
guess I’ll just go play my poor terminally ill whistle and pout somewhere…
[ This Message was edited by: TelegramSam on 2002-06-17 17:05 ]
I suppose we should mount a campaign for fipple replacement availability. I cracked about four m’self. I had a great F too.
Tele,
Dude, don’t beat yourself up about it. Seriously, put a little super glue in there, wrap it with thread to tighten the crack and then wrap it with tape. Take off the tape in a couple of hours and it should be like new… or something. By the way, Generation Fs are almost always good, even if they are completely useless for anything except driving rodents insane.
Best,
Chris
I wouldn’t care so much but the problem is that I own 10 whistles and 9 of them sound like s**t.
Of course it would have to be the one good one that got trashed, now wouldn’t it?
My first whistle was a Clarke Original D. It sounded okay until one day I accidentally slammed it in the car door. Miraculously, it played like a dream after that. I’ve not been able to find a whistle I like as much since. You might try someting siimilar with your Generations.
It’s worth a try.
Chris
I’m broke. Dead broke. Can’t buy any more whistles, otherwise I’d forget the cheap ones and just go ahead and buy something nice. Too bad. Maybe I can convince my parents to get me one of those kerry songbirds I wanted for my birthday. Probably not since they just took out thousands in loans for my education, but it’s worth a shot. practices pitiful sad face for use on parents
Pull yourself together!, sounds like you need to do some whistle surgery on the other nine or shell out $7.00 for a Sweetone (less than a meal at Mc Donalds). My two year old daughter pulls that much change out of the couch on a regular basis. When you don’t have much money its time to be creative.
What about epoxy? Aren’t there some epoxy mixes that you could use to fill in the crack?
I’m not going to shell out more money on cheapo whistles because, as I said before, I have 10 whistles (all cheap) and 9 of them sound like crap. If 90% are crap, that means I’d have to buy another 10 to get one decent whistle, at which point I’d do better to get a good quality whistle. Unfortunatly, I can’t afford either option.
I probably will try to tweak some of the others, if I ever get the courage to go at them. I can probably pull some stick tac off the back of the posters in my room anyhow…
On 2002-06-17 17:31, cerrabus wrote:
Pull yourself together!, sounds like you need to do some whistle surgery on the other nine or shell out $7.00 for a Sweetone (less than a meal at Mc Donalds). My two year old daughter pulls that much change out of the couch on a regular basis. When you don’t have much money its time to be creative.
On 2002-06-17 17:22, TelegramSam wrote:
I’m broke. Dead broke.
If you move to Rapid City, South Dakota, Sam, I’ll send you a brand new Meg. 
[ This Message was edited by: blackhawk on 2002-06-17 19:32 ]
On 2002-06-17 17:12, ChrisLaughlin wrote:
Tele,
Dude, don’t beat yourself up about it. Seriously, put a little super glue in there, wrap it with thread to tighten the crack and then wrap it with tape. Take off the tape in a couple of hours and it should be like new… or something. By the way, Generation Fs are almost always good, even if they are completely useless for anything except driving rodents insane.
Best,
Chris
Well I gave it a try, we’ll see how this trick turns out.
I looked closely, and it seems there’s a hairline crack all the way through the blade already anyhow, maybe this will keep it from splitting apart. I might just leave the thread/tape on there for good. It looks kinda silly, but as long as it sounds good, who cares, right?
I have a friend whose very favourite Gen. D (brass with red mouthpiece) got slammed in a car door - the mouthpiece broke into about 6 pieces. He glued it back together and insisted it still played great. Every once in a while it falls onto the floor and breaks again, so he just glues it back together. Nobody, but nobody can convince him to shell out another $10 to buy a new one!!
Well I might not be able to convince my parents to get me a kerry songbird for my birthday, but I’m sure they’d order me another gen F. Maybe I’ll ask for a nickel one this time, just for variety’s sake…
yay, my mom said I could get another one! I have to mop all the floors and dust all the furniture tomorrow, but I can get another one!
