DishWasher Good For Cleaning/Sterlizing Whistles

Feadin · Post by **Feadin** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:04 pm

I think I saw a crack on my Feadog Pro, too. Will check it out when I get home...
I wasn't very sure and I didn't give it too much attention, but now I'm beggining to worry about it. It was at the lower part of the fipple too, where it joins with the bodie.

I really like my little Feadog Pro, I hope it's nothing serious

Feadin · Post by **Feadin** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:13 pm

It's difficult to see it in the picture, but here's the crack.... or at least I believe it's a crack, it could be a very deep scratch too...

StewySmoot · Post by **StewySmoot** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:30 pm

Another use for the dishwasher is it helps your wife keep the kitchen clean.

<FaceHittingHand>slap</FaceHittingHand>

I am going to try my OS Chieftain in the next load. Jury still out on throwing in the Kerry Pro Tunable.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:39 pm

Mebbe, but them dishes don't exactly march in there and set down on their own.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 9:51 pm

Wanderer wrote: I'll post pictures of my crack when I get home,

But FIRST, I'm going to wash my mouth out with soap.

Feadin wrote:It's difficult to see it in the picture, but here's the crack.... or at least I believe it's a crack, it could be a very deep scratch too...

That looks like the same kind of defect mine originally had.

Eventually, they became:

Feadin · Post by **Feadin** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 5:10 am

Now I'm worried.

Did you already talk with Paul McCarron from Feadog about this?

I guess since now on my Feadog suddenly became non-tunable...

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:07 am

I haven't...the other folks who said their whistles cracked, they mostly attributed the blame to themselves...hopefully, with some pictures out there, we can find out if there's truly a phenomenon happening.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:48 am

Wanderer wrote:That looks like the same kind of defect mine originally had.
Eventually, they became...

That's amazing, Wanderer: those 2 cracks are in almost exactly the same place, and there's not
even a seam there... There must be a manufacturing problem resulting in weakness.
I bet the dishwasher trick voids the old feadog warrenty, though.

I've got cracked Meg mouthpieces, but only along the seams, and that's really cheap material.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:22 am

fearfaoin wrote:
That's amazing, Wanderer: those 2 cracks are in almost exactly the same place, and there's not
even a seam there... There must be a manufacturing problem resulting in weakness.

If i had only had one of them, I may not have given it a second thought. I originally thought the black one cracked because I stressed it twisting the head off to make it tunable. The green one cracked some time in the whistle drawer in what appears to be the exact same place. It makes me suspcious of a weakness too.

KDMARTINKY · Post by **KDMARTINKY** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:57 am

Yep, mine is in the same place Greg. Looks exactly like your "Green Top". But like I said mine was i believe self-inflicted due to the experiment with plastic heads and dishwashers....

Lesson learned: Extreme heat and plastic don't mix, but the good news from my experience is the Chieftains are clean and sterilized....

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:15 am

I'll post a fresh topic with an appropriate subject line and see if we can't get some more conversaton going about it.