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- Fri May 15, 2015 5:17 am
- Forum: Technical - Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Penberthy flow out of the overflow port?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6713
Re: Penberthy flow out of the overflow port?
Read the Mar/Apr 2015 issue of Steamboating Magazine to be mailed out next Monday. There's a reprint at the end from an old Penberthy operators manual on how to install and operate a Penberthy (and by extension many other makes of injector). "Cause you're a subscriber you can read it, do it, and hav...
- Fri May 15, 2015 5:10 am
- Forum: Technical - Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Building Pumps
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4981
Re: Building Pumps
The (very late due to my illness) Steamboating Magazine Mar/Apr 2015 issue will be in the mail in a couple of days and has a reprinting of about 20 previously published articles on the construction of feedwater pumps. If you don't subscribe, find someone who does and take a look.
- Fri May 15, 2015 3:39 am
- Forum: General Steamboat stuff
- Topic: brass accoutrements for the boat?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6925
Re: brass accoutrements for the boat?
Real brass boat parts have become hard to find. Stainless steel is common for chocks, bitts etc. but not suitable for a traditional steamboat. eBay is where I need to search for the proper parts. For the crown of the stack, you can troll the yard sales or ebay for the proper piece, usually found on...
- Fri May 15, 2015 3:36 am
- Forum: General Steamboat stuff
- Topic: cleaning engine pan?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 17767
Re: cleaning engine pan?
Any steamboater who pumps water with ANY oily residue from his/her steamboat into the waters upon which it floats should be boiled in his own boiler and buried with a 12" diameter Lunkenheimer whistle up his/her anus!
- Thu Mar 12, 2015 10:40 pm
- Forum: Technical - non Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Oiler pistons
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5856
Re: Oiler pistons
The current issue of The Smokestack magazine has a nice article by John Winn entitled "Lubricator for the Hasbrouck Twin". In it John uses an internal piston metering pump (the pump is used in many chasis lubrication system, pumping a very precise amount of lubricant per stroke, and for this reason ...
- Sun Feb 15, 2015 10:47 pm
- Forum: Sales and Trade
- Topic: Steam launch on ebay
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15817
Re: Steam launch on ebay
" I wonder if this has any particular effect on the smoke? Or is it just ornamental?" The "King's Crown" type stack outlet, just ornamental, traditional on western riverboats. I would like to find a nice brass ornamental piece to finish off my stack. Sometimes an ornamental brass piece from an umbr...
- Tue Jan 27, 2015 11:38 pm
- Forum: Technical - Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Information on Surface condensers
- Replies: 25
- Views: 19389
Re: Information on Surface condensers
Something to be said for being able to regulate the flow with a valve. Wish I could come up with an ingenious way to control how much keel condenser area I'm using depending on temps and load. Yeah, and since it's a centrifugal pump as I decrease the flow through the condenser by creating back pres...
- Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:20 pm
- Forum: Technical - Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Information on Surface condensers
- Replies: 25
- Views: 19389
Re: Information on Surface condensers
Back at the end of the last century I owned a sweet, 26', ex-Navy motor whaleboat named Artemis . I live in Portland, OR, at the junction of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers - where the river temperature can be at 76F in the summer and below freezing in the winter. The first year I had her out I h...
- Thu Jan 15, 2015 9:14 pm
- Forum: Technical - non Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Hand pump for boiler feedwater
- Replies: 32
- Views: 31315
Re: Hand pump for boiler feedwater
Good evening Ron, in the page 15 of the sept-oct 1963 issue of Steamboat & Modern Steam Launches, there's an ad for Semple Steam Power. Can you please check your reference as I'm also interested in the subject? Thanx. :oops: Whoooops! Should say page 22. Darn fingers get in the way of hitting the r...
- Thu Jan 15, 2015 6:44 pm
- Forum: Technical - non Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Hand pump for boiler feedwater
- Replies: 32
- Views: 31315
Re: Hand pump for boiler feedwater
Elliot Bay Steam Launch Co have casting kits for a hand pump looks a good design also has volume per stroke listed, $190.00 http://www.steamlaunch.com/index.html click on new products and scroll down to the pumps. Noel This is nearly identical to a pump I built from a design by George Marshall and ...