Making mufflers

[NOBLNG]

I recently made these mufflers and thought I would share the process. First I glued two pieces of .156” tube together and filled the crotch with some half-round and CA. Then I sanded the ends square and capped them with some thin styrene sheet. Sand the end caps flush and drill the holes for the .100” exhaust pipes....simple!? The tubing allows the exhaust pipes to “float” in and out a bit until everything is in place  so it can be glued solid. The exhaust pipe can be solid styrene, solder, or in this case I used .100” tube with some soft wire shoved inside.

 

 

Edited January 6, 2023 by NOBLNG

[Ironman63]

NICE!!!

[Deuces ll]

Oh, heck yeah!!....??

[cobraman]

Nice work, they look great !

[Tom Geiger]

Super! Especially getting two to match!

[PappyD340]

That's a neat tip, thanks for sharing!

[1930fordpickup]

Another great tip Greg. Looks great. 

[slusher]

Great tip thanks,?

[Len Woodruff]

Excellent tip. Thanks for sharing.

[bill-e-boy]

I like it

[carnut]

Wow, a great idea. I’m stealing this - hope you don’t mind, of course I’ll give full credit.

Edited May 27, 2021 by carnut

[NOBLNG]

18 hours ago, carnut said:

Wow, a great idea. I’m stealing this - hope you don’t mind, of course I’ll give full credit.

Not at all, that’s why I posted it in this section. Now if you took it from my build thread....?

Edited May 28, 2021 by NOBLNG

[carnut]

6 hours ago, NOBLNG said:

Not at all, that’s why I posted it in this section. Now if you took it from my build thread....

No I wouldn’t do that. It’s just for my own projects.

Thanks for sharing this.

[Dragonhawk1066]

Great tip! I make mine a different way, but I'll definitely have to try this sometime.

[Rusty92]

This is a great tip. Thanks for sharing.

[shucky]

Made something similar on a GTI build a bunch of years ago. Made a "carbon" look can using styrene tubing with single inlet and dual outlet. Front pipe and rear pipes were polished solder. 

[iBorg]

Well, aren't you the bee's knees?

Seriously, many objects we need for our replicas can be scratch built if we can just take some time and break the object down into its basic shapes.