I am looking for guidance for how much firespace is required for very small solid fueled boilers. I am putting together a power plant for a canoe, where weight and center of gravity are obviously critical. I am thinking of very small roberts, express, or 2-drum type boiler, with a 4" steam drum. Con...

It's time to sell the tug. I bought this boat - the "Spirit of Algoma" in 2009 after chancing across her in a Milwaukee boatyard. The boat was not in running condition then, but had been run in the prior 5 years (presumaby by someone attempting suicide by boiler). I removed and scrapped the suicide ...

That is an elegant boat. Can't wait to see you get it back on the water!

Welcome Peter! I probably speak for almost everyone on the forum in saying we'd love to see and hear about your build.

Cheers!
Scott

Hi Pete and Bart, I am also considering a similar overfeed/underfeed with accumulator plan. I was thinking of a more analog system with a double-acting feed pump where one side of the feed pump would always feed the coil, but the other side would have a bypass controlled by a stanley type or similar...

Hi Pete, Sounds wonderful! Will Lamont boilers and the like be allowed on the site as fellow travellers? I have a hot water pressure washer coil I had made with the intention of running my 20' boat with it. If I every have a minute to make some progress on the d**n thing I'd love to share it with th...

I think I have all the issues from Ron's editorship. I'll see if I can find that one and make a digital copy this weekend.

Cheers,
Scott

Thanks for sharing the video! What pressure were you running at? Were you happy with the performance of the pump?

Cheers,
Scott

Kingsley wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 08, 2020 9:01 pm

Hi, I used one of these pumps on my monotube boiler setup:
[Youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po9Pcqp2z3M[/Youtube]

Kingsley

The coil from Farley's is $850, plus shipping (around $125 for me to get it from Arkansas to Chicago). That's for about a 40 sf coil. I checked with my local Hotsy dealer, and a standard coil as a spare part for one of their machines is $400. However, I think that's a 14" diameter coil, so probably ...

I know these pumps have been used successfully at least once in conjunction with a hot water pressure washer coil for a steam buggy. I think the steam conditions were low - something like 100 psi. The specs for these pumps don't *quite* reach what our actual conditions would be, even in a low pressu...