Having written about my much-loved Oak which I can’t keep the head ON, how in heavens name do you get the head off a Feadog? I’ve done everything short of boiling it with the eggs. It need therapy, so I need to decapitate it so it will be beyond caring. 
Trisha
Have you tried heating the tube with a candle, just below the head, to get the glue to melt? I disclaim any responsibility for the result and for the noxious fumes, but it has been known to work on occasion. And if you think a 'dog is a bitch to get off (I’m so funny), you should try decapitating a Gen C.
I’ve used water right on the stove at a rolling boil. Wrap it with a towel or something so you don’t burn yourself when you take it out of the water and try to remove the mouthpiece. It may take several tries.
What Bloomie said about disclaiming (he’s the official postructural attorney).
Best wishes,
Jerry
I disclaim all responsibility for anything you do. If anything happens that you or your mother don’t like, it’s all Jerry’s fault.
You know, the title of this thread anywhere other than C&F would lead someone to call the police on you. Oddly enough, around here it actually makes sense!
Steven
And a credit to the profession, he is.
Sticking it’s head in boiling water it is…although the Range cooker is even more temperamental than the wretched whistle! 
By tomorrow, the deed should be done although with the hail storms we shall probably have no power in any case…Well we did NEED rain.
Trisha, Wales
Hi Trisha,
It might be wise to work up to boiling in stages.
Some other fipples of more brittle plastic may crack if inserted in boiling water. I’m thinking Generation, Clare or Doolin.
But if Dr Freemanstein has tried it, you’re probably OK.
Trisha, since you are shunning my candle method, let me just point out a couple of things, and I mean apart from “where Jerry learned it all”: he wants you to wrap the whistle with a towl or something, not the stove or the water. Wrap the whistle head AFTER you take it out of the boiling water and not before. When he says “it may take several tries” he is referring removing the mouthpiece, not to taking the whistle out of the water (you’re not Martin Milner, after all).
Good luck.
You know, the title of this thread anywhere other than C&F would lead someone to call the police on you. Oddly enough, around here it actually makes sense!
Try walking around the house frantically, saying you can’t find your Sweetheart’s head, not realising exactly why everybody is staring at you.
Well, not necessarily.
It is a method of last resort. I’ve used it successfully, but some whistleheads do get wrecked in the tweaking, so it’s not risk-free.
Best wishes,
Jerry
And Bloomfield. Now you’ve done it. I can’t keep the secret any longer. It’s true. I learned everything I know from Bloomfield (including that stuff about ductape curing warts).
And soon they all spack like I do
And I daresay even more confusing
And I’ll be the ruler of the world 
Btw, and to keep on topic: taping worts doesn’t wark. Beheading them by boiling them in water with a cloth around one’s tube, I don’t know, I never tried.
What warks with worts is selling them. I already shipped one across the Atlantic. But I’m buying five in return. A small step for mankind, but a giant step into WOA.
Hehehe. You know how it goes, Jerry: Better to lose a good friend than a good pun. 
Cran: LOL.
I’m trying to evaluate this cracking scenario.
These are thermoplastics, designed for injection molding. It never occurred to me that they might crack due to the heat of boiling water. I’ve only been concerned about melting them. I suppose if one were to heat one too fast, it’s conceivable that it might crack due to uneven expansion, but has it actually happened, or is this a theoretical issue?
Best wishes,
Jerry
I should point out in my defense that it only took three or four tries before I realised that taking a whistle out of boiling water with ones fingers was inadvisable, and in fact quite painful.
The resultant swelling did help me covering the holes on my Low D for a few weeks. Result.
However I do not recommend this method of inducing temporary finger swellage, as it also makes it very difficult to wind one’s watch, or pick one’s nose (or anybody else’s, come to that).
Cranberry, I love the image! However, one must wonder exactly why your Sweetheart’s head ended up on the ground outside your house… (Then again, maybe this is one of those cases where I just shouldn’t ask.)
Steven
Jerry,
The crack can occur at a weak point, a fault line if you will, from the original moulding process. As the plastic flows into the mould, it cools along the front edge (imagine a lava flow from a volcano) and where these edges meet within the mould, an incomplete bonding of the polymers results (I’m guessing it’s a polymer thing, my chemistry studies stopped at age 18). This all happens in microseconds, but it’s there.
Generation heads have this tendancy, and you can sometimes see where a crack is inherent in the plastic but hasn’t opened up yet.
I think one of the Doolin heads I sent you at the weekend has a small crack in it.
Feadog heads are a more flexible polymer, and I haven’t seen a crack in one yet.
Try walking around the house frantically, saying you can’t find your Sweetheart’s head, not realising exactly why everybody is staring at you.
Cranberry, I love the image! However, one must wonder exactly why your Sweetheart’s head ended up on the ground outside your house… (Then again, maybe this is one of those cases where I just shouldn’t ask.)
The head(piece) got slippery because when I first oiled it I layed it on a piece of plastic for the night and it just rolled off and vanished for a little while. The next morning I was walking around the house as in every room, not physically going around in circles outside the house. rofl. It was on the floor under the bed, not on the actual ground where flowers grow. 
Surely heating the tube and, by conduction, the tube under the unheated fipple, cracking is even more likely? Dives for cover… 
In any case, the hapless Feadog now has dent at the end of it’s tube from being slung on the quarry tiles by a wr**ched offspring. Panel beating anyone?
Do not touch my Oak/Chieftain/Howard…or I’ll cast you to the fishes… 
Re Cranberry’s Sweetheart…with an Atavar like that he must be a Braveheart indeed!
Trisha, Wales
OK, gotcha. That makes a little more sense. I must say, though, I do like the first image (wandering around outside) better! It just has more oomph to it, somehow…
Steven