How to make a whistle for a teapot with your own hands?

Surely, everyone will appreciate the functionality of the whistle for the kettle, which lets us know about the readiness of water for making hot drinks and does not allow the vessel to boil in vain. However, it happens that these useful little things are lost, broken or simply missing when buying a teapot. In this case, you need to know how to make a whistle for the kettle with your own hands. Craftsmen are devising various ways to make useful devices for home kettles from improvised materials with a minimum set of tools, so let's look at the most interesting options together.

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Metal whistle

In shape, this device often resembles a short cylinder. Although, the upper part can have absolutely any design. The main thing here is that the adaptation system and its functionality are not lost. However, if you want to make a whistle on the kettle with your own hands, it is better to stop on the cylinder.

Craftsmen who at least once worked on metal will not have much difficulty making a fixture of copper or zinc plates. Having non-corroding metal, you can perform such a simple device:

1. To do this, cut out several details to fit the size of the nose - two circles and a rectangle for the cylinder.
2. After that, solder them together, getting a great accessory in the shape of a hat.

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Cork whistle

To make a whistle for a teapot with your own hands is original, but at the same time, quite functional, you can use ordinary corks, which mainly cover bottles with lemonade and beer:

1. Using a soldering tool, two such plugs are connected together.
2. After that, holes of 3 mm are cut through them.

Important! To make a more voluminous whistle for a teapot, a cylinder welded from a strong and light metal, which is placed between the corks, can help.

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Whistle

For ordinary teapots with thin noses, a children's whistle is quite suitable, which, as a rule, is able to completely adhere to the surface. If, on the contrary, the teapot has a wide bulk part, then a metal cup can become a wonderful base, in which a hole can be made very easily with a thin nozzle of an electric drill.

Important! To make a whistle on a teapot with your own hands, which will serve a high quality and safe for a long time, you need to wisely approach the choice of metal for it.

The whistle can not be made of aluminum or plastic. Materials that are resistant to corrosion, such as copper, zinc or galvanizing, should be preferred.

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Fix whistle

The need to make a whistling device for a teapot is very often caused by a breakdown of the old device. In this case, one of the best options is to simply repair the failed part.

Important! Often a breakdown consists in falling off a plate inside the whistle, which is not always welded to the conscience.

If you have just such a situation, then you can fix the accessory using the following steps:

• Pull the whistle out of the shell - for this you need a regular screwdriver to help pry off the edge of the part.
• Holding the whistle in your hand, remove the spring beneath it, prepare the surface. To do this, sand off four mating surfaces with sandpaper.
• In the process of soldering, you will need soldering acid, which in the future will be needed to neutralize.
• After thorough preparation, you can proceed directly to soldering, and then carefully clean the parts.
• At the end of the last step, neutralize with alkali.

Important! For this purpose, you can also use the usual ammoniahowever, remember that this procedure is necessary outdoors.

• To neutralize, put the corrected whistle in a shallow glass and fill it with 10 or 25% ammonia.

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As you can see, making a whistle on a teapot with your own hands is not so difficult. If you make it correctly and from good material, most likely he will survive the kettle itself. The presence of metal, a soldering iron and minimal experience can completely solve the problem with a broken whistle or its absence.