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Blue Heeler	12/01/2021 00:45:47
342 forum posts	Anyone made an exhaust flapper for one of their models? Do you have any photos you can share?
Paul Lousick	12/01/2021 01:51:27
2276 forum posts 801 photos	Which models ? (And in the words of one of our red headed polititions "Please Explain" )
Blue Heeler	12/01/2021 01:58:31
342 forum posts	Posted by Paul Lousick on 12/01/2021 01:51:27: Which models ? (And in the words of one of our red headed polititions "Please Explain" ) One of these but sized for a model engine.
not done it yet	12/01/2021 07:00:28
7517 forum posts 20 photos	They are to keep the rain out, so are these for internal combustion engines? They would ‘strangle’ a chimney.
JasonB	12/01/2021 07:34:46
25215 forum posts 3105 photos 1 articles	I've seen them on the model Holt engines with their vertical stak, seem to run fine with one. Trick is to make the "cap" as light as possible and have the vertical part in your photo only just lighter so it counterbalances almost all the weight of the cap but still allows it to close.
Blue Heeler	12/01/2021 22:32:13
342 forum posts	Thanks Jason.
Nigel Graham 2	12/01/2021 22:45:23
3293 forum posts 112 photos	They are an internal-combustion device. You see them, with or without the little counter-weights, on lorry exhausts that point vertically upwards above the cab roof.

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