The Steamboating Forum

Hello Peter, Ray made the changes to the exhaust ports because he found in practice that engines with a larger port cross-section simply run better and secondly I think it is possible that he took a closer look at STUART Turner's designs and found that this is basically how it is done and the small ...

Hi Bart,

the parts look good. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any prices on the foundry's website. Where can I check?

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Dietrich

Hello Ingvar,

thank you for the answer. I found some information about LinuxCNC and also this interesting video.

https://youtu.be/WS2Zqcu4Duo?si=Fuj0BnQdunSk1x_Z

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Dietrich

Hi,

looks interesting.

... The Linux CNC program is already installed on this machine? it is simple and I can learn it quickly.

Which CNC-program do you use?

Best
Dietrich

Hi Peter,

i have found some interesting links.

Hexagon Rivet Bush installation knowledge base

https://youtu.be/TQ8NczwGeAo?si=bol4fTf9wwZlzxCC

Hope it will be helpful

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Dietrich

Hi Russ,

thank you for the data, very interesting.

What about the valve chest pressure of the little engine? I think it is more informative about the performance of the engine than the boiler pressure.

Cheers,
Dietrich

Hi Kelly,

thank you for the comment.

I have redesigned the piston and its rings. There was at first one O-ring as piston-ring. To achieve a better seal, i made a new piston in which i was able to install two X-rings as piston rings.

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Dietrich

Hi,

for those who might be interested in the build of the machine pump unit I show these two sectional images.


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Dietrich

Hi Barry, thank you for the picture. The flames are really close to the watertubes. I have refitted some years ago a little gas burner for a KRICK steam engine with a "cover plate" to improve the Heat transfer to the boiler and to protect the flame from blowing out. The cover plate was mad...

Hi Bary, thank you for the answer. One more question about the burners, is there a type plate or do you have any information about it? The background to my question is that I called the service for our gas heating system today because of problems with the burners and the fitter checked the gas press...