Is Weltyk’s Whistles still around? Looking to add a whistle to my Accucraft mogul someday, and found some great soundclips of these whistles, but no working website for them. Are they no longer in business? Any other manufacturers that make them?
Thanks
Renner makes a nice little whistle. Shrill and loud good for little narrow gauge stuff to warn the roosters off the track. Talk to Jason at The Train Department!
I think Welty still is making whistles, a friend got one for his modified Emma couple of years ago.
Warn Rooster off the track? Cool.
OK so I assume since this is a live steam topic I assume these whistles are steam powered. How do they work and could one be modified for use with some sort of air source for a sparky? Or do they already make working whistles for sparkies
Devon Sinsley said:
Or do they already make working whistles for sparkies
They do. They’re called “Sound Cards”, and they make other noises, too. Chuffs, Bells, Blowdown, Air pump, along with the whistle noises…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Hi All,I just finished a Roundhouse #24 SRRL Weltyk’s Whistle and R/C it. Here is how it came out Enjoy
that’s a nice rig there Bob!! you still selling the whistles?
Devon, not impossible i’m sure, but by the time you find and fit in an air source a sound chip would be much more efficient
Eric, ill take a look 
Ken Brunt said:
Devon Sinsley said:
Or do they already make working whistles for sparkies
They do. They’re called “Sound Cards”, and they make other noises, too. Chuffs, Bells, Blowdown, Air pump, along with the whistle noises…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
I kinda walked into that one so I deserved it. But that aside the question remains.
Bob Weltyk said:
Hi All,I just finished a Roundhouse #24 SRRL Weltyk’s Whistle and R/C it. Here is how it came out Enjoy
Well that is a very nice whistle.
Devon, to make a compressor and air reservoir that would fit in a scale locomotive, and have the pressure and volume flow to sound a whistle, would be quite the challenge. Remember, pressurized steam expands to many many times its original volume, when it is released into the atmosphere.
There is also the factor that whistles sound different wet (steam) or dry (compressed air).
You might be able to run one on one of the little CO2 cartridges used for pellet guns.
Greg
I think he mostly done with the whistles. Lter RJD
David Bailey, in the UK offers whistles. DJB engineering
