Show us a picture of your muffler raincap

S.Crum · Oct 22, 2009

I'm looking at what I can do to start producing flapper style raincaps again in stainless steel. I made these for awhile years ago, but it was too expensive for what I could sell them for. (TSC still sells tin ones for around 10 bucks). If I can develop a design that I can make and sell in a cost effective manner, I may start making them again.
Funny thing was the only complaints I got on the first one's I made was on 3 occasions these were stolen off tractors at shows.

Jeff-oh · Oct 22, 2009

So how much ar you paying for my idea or design work?

S.Crum · Oct 22, 2009

I'm guessing you have a patented design? Otherwise buying un-protected 'ideas', bridges and ocean front property are in about the same category.
Thanks

Anonymous-0 · Oct 22, 2009

Original ideas are original ideas, do not have to be protected by a patent. Not in the same catagory as beach front property. Eitherway, they are fairly simple. Why not just come up with your own design?

S.Crum · Oct 22, 2009

I have a few of my own designs, I'm just wondering what's popular.
And sorry, buying an un-protected original idea is a fool's game, 'Trust me, I won't patent it and sell it to the Chinese'! Of course patent or not, there's no protection from that country anyway.

Flurette Farm · Oct 22, 2009

I just installed a new one yesterday at almost no cost and the only labor involved was taking the label off the can.
I am however not sure where it was made. Since it originally had beans inside, maybe Mexico.

Ron in NS · Oct 22, 2009

I made mine out of clear #1 PET plastic. Guaranteed not to rust. Can't say it's not sensitive to heat tho.....
(2 litre Pepsi bottle)

AndrewFromNS · Oct 22, 2009

Ron,
I, personally, prefer the 591ml bottles. Hack them off right below the lid, cut slits into the tapered part of the neck, fold the tabs, created by the slits, inside the bottle, and they act like a friction surface to hold the bottle on. Works fantastically. Super-C has one that rides on the starting crank handle. I keep muttering that I should make up a nice, shiny metal one...but oddly, I haven't yet.

AR

RodinNS · Oct 22, 2009

I'd be more worried about A market rather than a design...
I wouldn't think price would be a huge issue to someone dolling something up for a show? It costs what it costs if you want that 'look' on it.
For everyday working tractors I'd suspect that most tractors are simply going to have plain old steel caps or some form of angled pipe.
I'm getting to be a fan of the angled pipe more and more. It never flips open in a wind storm and it never rattles.

Rod

RayP(MI) · Oct 22, 2009

I got an automotive muffler from the muffler shop. One of the oval ones, and had them put an offset end on it. Unfortunately, muffler has a ridge all around the top, and a drain hole into the muffler. If rain settles into the muffler, next time you drive the tractor, you get black slobbers all over. I use a 5gallon bucket!

showcrop · Oct 22, 2009

What I would like is something to put over my stack to catch the soot for when I start up in the shop. I don't do it that often but I recently noticed that there is a fine layer of soot on everything that doesn't move. It would be something that I would take off once I get out the door.

Brian Jasper co. Ia · Oct 22, 2009

This discussion on rain caps makes me feel a little better about searching through a salvage yard to find a nice cap that had a stamp made in USA on it.
My vote for a rain cap is the kind with the rounded hinge on them like what they have at TSC. I think they were originally made by Anthes in Ft Madison Ia.

Crem · Oct 22, 2009

Not stainless steel though.

730 virgil · Oct 22, 2009

i get rain for my stainless straight pipe free when i empty a coffee can.

alg · Oct 22, 2009

S.
What ever happened to the stainless exhaust pipes your were going to make.??I could use one for my 172 cu.in Ford w/ vertical exhaust.

S.Crum · Oct 22, 2009

I make them every day. For the people who order them. I'm making some Farmall stuff now that it seems the Deere guys have run out of money. The Farmall guys are as tight as the bark on a crowbar or content with chrome or Chinese stuff. I don't hear much from the Ford guys but do have many of the patterns. Maybe I'll make some Ford stuff and put it on Flea-bay seein's the Farmall stuff isn't rushing out the door. I was offered 30 bucks for a new Farmall Cub stainless muffler this past weekend. You bet pal!

Moline_guy · Oct 23, 2009

From what i have seen, the ones that have the counter balance down seem to flip open easier if there is a head wind and rain while the ones that have the counter balance up seem to stay closed in my opinion and experience with them. Never seen a stainless steel one, but i have replaced a lot of the farm store ones over the years. This one has the counter balance up.

Show us a picture of your muffler raincap

S.Crum

Well-known Member

Jeff-oh

Well-known Member

S.Crum

Well-known Member

Anonymous-0

Well-known Member

S.Crum

Well-known Member

Flurette Farm

Member

Ron in NS

Well-known Member

AndrewFromNS

Member

RodinNS

Well-known Member

RayP(MI)

Well-known Member

showcrop

Well-known Member

Brian Jasper co. Ia

Well-known Member

Crem

Member

730 virgil

Well-known Member

alg

Member

S.Crum

Well-known Member

Moline_guy

Well-known Member

Similar threads