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Re: Triumph Model F
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 9:38 pm
by De Soto Frank
Budget "Tiz-It" ....
Try a ½ copper 45* "street-elbow" - the "street" means one end is female, the other end male.
I just hooked one up on my Home with "C" reproducer + front-crane and 30" horn. Improved the geometry a lot. The female end slips over the "spout" on the reproducer, the male end goes into the rubber tube.
About $1.25 + tax from Home Despot.
Good luck !
Frank
Re: Triumph Model F
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 11:01 am
by welshfield
I'm a big fan of the "copper elbow." It makes the load on the feedscrew much less. I also suspect that, if the rubber connector is short enough to allow physical contact between the elbow and the horn end, it also improves sound volume and quality by eliminating the trip through rubber of the sound waves.
John
Re: Triumph Model F
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 12:01 pm
by alang
Ron Sitko sells nickel plated repro elbows for just a few bucks. Looks a lot nicer than a copper pipe.
Andreas
Re: Triumph Model F
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 6:25 pm
by JerryVan
alang wrote:Ron Sitko sells nickel plated repro elbows for just a few bucks. Looks a lot nicer than a copper pipe.
Andreas
If I'm not mistaken, aren't Ron's elbows just nickel plated copper pipe elbows? Not picking on his product, just saying I think it's still a copper pipe fitting, albeit a shiny one.
Re: Triumph Model F
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 6:32 pm
by ambrola
JerryVan wrote:alang wrote:Ron Sitko sells nickel plated repro elbows for just a few bucks. Looks a lot nicer than a copper pipe.
Andreas
If I'm not mistaken, aren't Ron's elbows just nickel plated copper pipe elbows? Not picking on his product, just saying I think it's still a copper pipe fitting, albeit a shiny one.
I think it should have a Tizit? I will probably end up selling it anyways.
Re: Triumph Model F
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 7:32 pm
by De Soto Frank
I think I remember seeing those elbows at Ron's table at Fall Wayne, and if indeed I did, I thought - "huh - copper plumbing ells"...
Not to take away from them...
Whether you get the raw copper from the hardware store, or the plated version, they do the job, and are a lot cheaper than a
Tiz-It...
For now, the plumbing fits my needs...
Re: Triumph Model F
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 7:48 pm
by JerryVan
Amberola wrote:JerryVan wrote:alang wrote:Ron Sitko sells nickel plated repro elbows for just a few bucks. Looks a lot nicer than a copper pipe.
Andreas
If I'm not mistaken, aren't Ron's elbows just nickel plated copper pipe elbows? Not picking on his product, just saying I think it's still a copper pipe fitting, albeit a shiny one.
I think it should have a Tizit? I will probably end up selling it anyways.
It doesn't have to have a Tizit. Any 45 degree elbow will work. The Tizit can be a lot more expensive than the cheaper solutions above. You'll likely not get that much more for the arrangement for having a Tizit, since the main draw is the very nice, very late Triumph itself.