Whistle Cleaning

[Old School]

Originally Posted by tjones1

I put my whistles in boiling water. Fast and easy.

Negative! Do not do this! The plastic will melt or start to deform if you leave it in there too long. Plus, a big no-no, the shine on the whistle will fade because of the hot water. The black will turn to an off dull black. Vinegar sounds the best to me because we use this to clean other things like coffee makers, etc. Leave it in over night, soak it in mouthwash before storing in your bag.

Actually, might not be a bad idea to do this treatment to your spare whistle in case one of your partners forgets theirs. They will appreciate the mouth-wash treatment.

[tjones1]

Originally Posted by Old School

Negative! Do not do this! The plastic will melt or start to deform if you leave it in there too long. Plus, a big no-no, the shine on the whistle will fade because of the hot water. The black will turn to an off dull black. Vinegar sounds the best to me because we use this to clean other things like coffee makers, etc. Leave it in over night, soak it in mouthwash before storing in your bag.

Actually, might not be a bad idea to do this treatment to your spare whistle in case one of your partners forgets theirs. They will appreciate the mouth-wash treatment.

If you allow them to melt you don't need to be messing with boiling water in the first place. Also, they will fade if you keep them in there too long...otherwise, it won't hurt the whistle.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Old School

Negative! Do not do this! The plastic will melt or start to deform if you leave it in there too long. Plus, a big no-no, the shine on the whistle will fade because of the hot water. The black will turn to an off dull black.

That won't happen if you use cold boiling water. Try it.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

"Clean whistle??!! I don't need no stinking clean whistle!!"

With apologies to Mel Brooks.

MTD, Sr.

[Mark Dexter]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

That won't happen if you use cold boiling water. Try it.

This should keep OS busy for a few days. Good work, JR!

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

That won't happen if you use cold boiling water. Try it.

It's certainly not impossible to have cold boiling water. In fact, water that is boiling can freeze pretty quickly (during the boiling action) if the proper conditions are present. (It does take some "special" -- though not outlandish -- equipment).

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

It's certainly not impossible to have cold boiling water. In fact, water that is boiking can freeze pretty quickly (during the boining action) if the proper conditions are present. (It does take some "special" -- though not outlandish -- equipment).

If I remember my physics correctly, you can boil cold water by introducing a vacuum.

No, I'm not going to make the obvious "Old School" joke here either.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

It's certainly not impossible to have cold boiling water. In fact, water that is boiling can freeze pretty quickly (during the boiling action) if the proper conditions are present. (It does take some "special" -- though not outlandish -- equipment).

Reminds me of the old Three Stooges short in which they were trying to mix up a batch of "spotted paint".

[rockyroad]

Run your whistles thru the dishwasher...just put them in the silverware compartment and take them out before the dry cycle...works great.

[crazy voyager]

I clean all my Fox 40s in vinegar. Does wonders. You'll be surprised what all comes out. Just soak them for an hour or so

I usually dip them in mouth wash and I have put Purell on them as well if they are really grimy and let it sit in my bag before I use it.

Great tip that a veteran passed on to me was to soak your whistles in a solution of baking soda in water. It works really well to get all the 'gunk' out of your whistle.

The absolute best way to clean your whistles to to drop them into a glass of Coke and leave them overnight. Be sure to use Coke Classic and not that snussy Diet Coke stuff. In the morning, everything that was in and on your whistle will have dissolved out and your whistles will be absolutely clean and sterile. As an added bonus, you can also drink the Coke for breakfast. It now has an added flavor that is quite tasty, and it is nutritious also.

now I'm not a chemist, but really, anything wich has a pH value not equal to 7 will do the trick. That's why all the above will work ( they are both acids so they will react and dissolve(? not sure on my english here) the dirt). How ever, don't use anything to strong like things you find in a lab, they might make your whistle go away, or have nasty reactions (e.g. if you put metal into HNO3 you will end up with highly toxic gas, but HNO3 is at least not for sale to the public in sweden, so I suppose you would know not to use it if you acctually had some).
Now my point is, I wouldn't go with boiling water, but use some vingear, coke, or other standard substances (iow, things you can eat) wich have a pH not equal to 7 and you will end up with a nice and clean whistle.

Okay, I'll bite, I'm probably going to regret this but, what the hey. How do you get cold water to boil?

I think you would have to lower the pressure quite much, but it's possible. If you try at home you will see that the temperature of boiling changes from day to day (look at the weather and see if you can find clues to when and how it changes). I have only done this a few times, but I found out that you can easily have a three degree lowering in the boiling point, just becuse of the conditions of that day.
But now, this is an official forum, and I think I need more officiating and less school work

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by crazy voyager

I think you would have to lower the pressure quite much, but it's possible. If you try at home you will see that the temperature of boiling changes from day to day (look at the weather and see if you can find clues to when and how it changes). I have only done this a few times, but I found out that you can easily have a three degree lowering in the boiling point, just becuse of the conditions of that day.

Put a beaker of cold water in a Bell Jar. Evacuate the air to create a vacuum. Voila!..boiling water.

Rudimentary physics experiment.....

[socalreff]

I just put my whistles in mouthwash overnight and they're minty fresh for a week.

[Old School]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

That won't happen if you use cold boiling water. Try it.

Okay, I'll bite, I'm probably going to regret this but, what the hey. How do you get cold water to boil?

[Old School]

Originally Posted by Old School

Okay, I'll bite, I'm probably going to regret this but, what the hey. How do you get cold water to boil?

I knew I would regret this. I hate I asked.

[crazy voyager]

well you've got your answer
*whistles* always look on the bright side of life