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Chris Williams 02-21-2010 08:03 PM
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Helps a ton. Thanks!

Jeff Beckman 02-21-2010 10:09 PM
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Hey Chuck, hope to see everyone in Atlanta. I had to stay home and shovel snow?????????? I was packed and leaving, my wife said, (Have you seen the weather? You should leave tonight.) But who listens to their wife (the guy with no beer and a loud generator). So everyone, listen to your wife, drink beer, get a smoke stack, play nice, and dont dump your oil on the ground!

63corvette 02-22-2010 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by 63corvette (Post 170578)
I also use a 3000 honda and built a stack for it using a 3" piece of plastic pipe and a heating duct outlet flange. I hang the flange on the handle just below the exhaust outlet to collect the exhaust and it funnels into a 90 degree L then into the 3" plastic running up to the top of the trailer with a hang on bracket to keep it there. It works pretty well and has not affected the operation of the generator. The plastic pipe gets a little hot on hot days but has not discolored at all and held up for two years now. It seems to meet the rules for a stack and seems to keep everyone happy who I have parked next to so far. I always ask how it is working for the neighbor and have yet to have any complaints. Maybe they are just being nice but the exhaust is the only way they seem to know it is running it is so quiet.
Hope that helps.
I posted this last night and received a call on the phone about the stack and asked for pictures. I will try to attach the pictures and hope this works as I have not tried to do so in the past.
I did make one mistake in the above posting and realized it when I went to take the pictures today and that was in the size of the plastic pipe. I used 4" pipe and not 3". Sorry but I was working off of memory and I am old and feeling it some days.
The flange is a heating duct from Lowes along with a 4X6 reducer then the 4" plastic pipe.
I did rivet the hanger at the top of the trailer to the stainless hose clamp at the top. If you do not the heating and cooling of the plastic pipe the bracket will come loose and the pipe will fall off. I had this problem once before installing the rivet.

Barney B 02-22-2010 06:51 PM
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Nice work!!

Chris Williams 02-22-2010 08:57 PM
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Originally Posted by 63corvette (Post 170797)
I posted this last night and received a call on the phone about the stack and asked for pictures.
Great, helps a lot. Do you attach it to the generator somehow?

Ed Fernandez 02-22-2010 09:13 PM
Re: All the talk about rules.....
 
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Originally Posted by Chris Williams (Post 170839)
Great, helps a lot. Do you attach it to the generator somehow?
By looking at the pics it looks like it just sits at the opening of the muffler/arrester.I
would say if that tin was attached to the gen it would sound like a skeleton dancing on a tin roof.
It's a neat solution though.Nice engineering.

63corvette 02-22-2010 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris Williams (Post 170839)
Great, helps a lot. Do you attach it to the generator somehow?
It just sits on the handle and hangs from the top bracket at the top of the trailer.
The bottom of the box has a piece of alum sheet metal pop riveted to the bottom that hangs over the handle on the generator. If you look at the bottom picture from the side you can see the lip that hangs down.
The box itself has a gap of a half of an inch or so all around and pulls a little cool air in as the generator runs. The generator hardly moves even when running and has worked well for me for the two years I have run it.
The only problem I have had with it is the top bracket came loose as I mentioned in the post but a pop rivet to the stainless hose clamp fixed that.
Thanks for the comments on the engineering. Being retired I have time to tinker sometimes and this project was one of those times.


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