The Steamboating Forum

Thank you very much for the replies to my question I found the the comments very helpful and also the posts on the thread "Best RPM for plunger pumps" have given me some ideas to try and make a small plunger style boiler feed pump. If that doesn't work out I can always go back to the hypro...

Hi I am a new steamboat owner and new to steam, I have a small 15ft boat with a Taylor single cylinder engine 2.25" X 2.5" with a copper blackstaff 5A water tube boiler at 100psi burning kerosene. I have never run the boat and I am in the process of redoing all the pipe work and going thro...