Scrap muffler

Nice, I remember the day when you would have to steer around one of these dropped in the road...

Thanks. I'm one of the culprits who dropped one!. I was on my way either to or from Baltimore, and it dropped on I81; needless to say, I kept going.

Your muffler looks excellent.

Thank You. I worked on it during lunch. I used some very thin galvanized metal, and formed the oval. For the piping, I used the metal stem of a marking flag we use to locate the sprinkler heads before doing any field work. Just the right size, and pre rusted. To do the ends, I used gray urethane caulking, and stuck the pre fabricated piping into the soft urethane. When I got home, I weathered the muffler. No need to do the piping. I'm going to try some gears, using the same process as the saw blades.

Don

You did it again!

Nice job, vary nice job, Don!

AG.

Thanks Andre. It's a lot of fun coming up with different ideas. 

Don

 Looks good - rather realistic now - not too much additional weaterhing needed.

Don,

 

This one also looks great.

The old addage is you can put enamel over lacquer, but not lacquer over enamel. Go to the auto paint store with your problems they have the answers. We used lacquer over old enamel, but dusted it on so it would not lift the enamel.  The new paints are great if you know how to use them, not only that but the paint store just might be able to mix your color and put it in a spray can for you.   Jack Tylenda

Nice job! Very convincing.

You must have spent a lot of time under the vehicle with part and paint-brush in hand 

Wow! Great job. That looks very realistic. 

Lee, Joe, Firewood and Hudson, thanks.

Don 

Wow..really cool idea..keep it up..
Your lunch breaks are too long..
Lol

Wow..really cool idea..keep it up..
Your lunch breaks are too long..
Lol

Thanks Brian. We may be heading north next Saturday. I we do, I'll bring one of the mufflers. Hopefully, we'll see you next Saturday.

Don

Jack, 

The problem with the paint is that it doesn't adhere well to urethane caulking. That's what I used to fill the ends. Also, for some reason, the Rustoleum red oxide primer doesn't come out in as fine a mist as the other sprays I used, no matter how far back I hold the can. I'm going to get a different brand. I might even pull out my Harbor Freight air brush that I bought almost two years ago and never used yet.

Don

I had an uncle that would pick up rusted mufflers and put them on his tractors. I remember driving said tractor bailing hay thinking I kept getting wasp stings on my back...nope. Hot rusted pieces of crud blowing out the junk muffler and dropping down my collar. Yeah...it was real funny.

Roger,

I can assure you my mufflers will be in gondolas, and not on any tractors you drive! I was a welder for quite a while, and still weld occasionally, so I know what hot metal feels like. I once had a spark get inside my ear, and I could hear the wax melting.

Don

Don

Cool idea, nice detail for a service station

Steve, I didn't think of that. I've been focusing on scrap loads, but this would look good in a pile outside the back of a garage. Since I don't have a layout, I've just been thinking in one dimension.

Don

Yeah, me too. It was yesterday!

Looks great.  Weathering is just right.