Have a look here. It's worth the click...

http://www.visitfinland.com/video/meet- ... t-captain/

Stephen wrote:More anon,

Yes please - send some pictures!

I like the tube rolling process but never did it. Tube rolling here in Germany is less strict reglemented than boiler welding... Where/how have you learned the tube rolling process?

Only 3 pictures allowed per post - so I will contiue here Residual material milling with 0.5 mm z-steps Max travel = 2.5 m/min = 40 mm/sec = 1.6 inch/sec - Total milling time from raw material about 30 minute. Will take at least twice as long with the harder material for the molds. 2014-03-23.213300...

Today I did a test milling of the gear top cover:
Roughening with 8 mm ball mill in 10 mm z-steps. 20% x-Y overlap Finishing in 3 mm z-steps Outer dimensions of the part 80 x 80 x 60 mm.
There is space for bigger projects.

Yes

I am back at the drawing board... because I don't know anything about the original German pump setup I try to imitate this late Savery pump system: 2014-03-22.214002.jpg First I choose a worm gear from a catalog and than defined the bore and stroke from the needed feed water amount. I ended up with ...

Tata - next new boat in my register (no. 162)

SL Missie from the Ohio River System out of Boone County, Kentucky:
http://www.steamboating.de/steamboat/st ... update.php

Congratulation

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1 million thumbs up - to say it in forum language

Thank you Simon!

Wesley has send me a lot of good pictures of SL Lorraine. He also cut a nice video for us and placed it in Youtube. With his help I could add boat No. 161 to my register: http://www.steamboating.de/steamboat/steamboat-register-radow-update.php I would be happy to present boat No. 200 this year - so ...

Hello Pete, it depends on the settings/timing of your valves. For the same output a compound need "more steam" in the HP than one HP of a twin. Therefore you have to change the timing and/or the valve shape. Same thing with the expansion. You want to divide the expansion phase into two cylinder. The...