Sorted it, well its quiter

Hi all, well think I now have the Maytag noise down to a level that is acceptable, well it is to me, did a bit googling as to how to quieten down a 2 stroke exhaust, saw that if a silencer interior baffle, the removable type, was repacked, covered , with sound deadening matting noise would be less.
With using flexi pipe there is no baffle so made one from the top mesh part of a disposable barbeque by rolling it round a piece of 15mm copper pipe, the flexi pipe has an I D of 32mm so should still be plenty of space for exhaust gasses to pass, made it approx. 12 inches long, then wired it to keep it in the tube shape, next bought a piece of matting from fleabay, wrapped it round wired it to stay on and put it inside flexi pipe, had mate Rooksey here yesterday to see the first testing of it and WOW what a noise reduction, you can now listen to it without ear plugs, will see what other engine men/ladies think at next months crank up.

Don

I think it was on here that someone mentioned that if the exhaust is vertical the perceived noise level is lower, maybe worth experimenting with the exhaust fixed to a stake?

I had a straight pipe on one of my motorcycles, needed to repack the baffles about every 6 months as it blew the packing out a few fibres at a time

Nice bike Stuart!!!

Stuart, nice but prefer this engine type, same make though, long gone now though.

donp wrote:Stuart, nice but prefer this engine type, same make though, long gone now though.

Is it a Kettle?

Appletop wrote:Nice bike Stuart!!!

I liked it, had the best part of 10 years

To reduce noise from a exhaust in the past I have packed them with stainless steel pan scrubbers from pound land it worked well and can be taken out and cleaned

Made up my mind to alter the 72 exhaust from a fleix pipe
by adding a bit bling well once it is polished .