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Cleaning Brass Calliope Whistles
By Hal Davis

The method I use to clean the windways of my calliope whistles is
simple.  I use a set of feeler gauges I bought at an auto parts store.

The set is a series of flat steel blades from 0.001" thickness, in
0.001" increments up to whatever.  I think there are about twenty or
more of them in the set I have.  They swing out from a pivot on one end
so there is no chance of losing a single one.

I've had them for thirty or more years so I don't know what they'd cost
now but they are well worthwhile to have and they work very well to
clean out the residue in the calliope whistles.

Hal Davis


(Message sent Mon 19 Nov 2001, 06:33:31 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

Key Words in Subject:  Brass, Calliope, Cleaning, Whistles

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