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- Sun Nov 12, 2023 8:34 pm
- Forum: Members' Websites and Boats
- Topic: Monotube Javelin
- Replies: 40
- Views: 156659
Re: Monotube Javelin
Hi Fred, just wondering how your bigger, faster, meaner, rougher, tougher project is coming along?
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 5:26 am
- Forum: General Steamboat stuff
- Topic: Blackstaff Steeple Compound Drawings/Information
- Replies: 9
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Re: Blackstaff Steeple Compound Drawings/Information
You should be able to get very funs results with investment casting. Are you aiming to do it in iron?
What will you do for the partition between the bottom of the HP and top of the LP cylinder?
What will you do for the partition between the bottom of the HP and top of the LP cylinder?
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 9:36 pm
- Forum: Technical - Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Steam engine from the North Caucasus
- Replies: 173
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Re: Steam engine from the North Caucasus
Beautiful work Ingvar. I think the rule of thumb for cooling surface in an inboard condenser is 1 square foot/indicated horsepower... I don't have my metric calculator to convert, I apologize. Will you be using a circulating pump for the cooling water? Obviously the cooler the circulating water, the...
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 9:33 pm
- Forum: General Steamboat stuff
- Topic: Blackstaff Steeple Compound Drawings/Information
- Replies: 9
- Views: 35875
Re: Blackstaff Steeple Compound Drawings/Information
Hi Kelly, Thanks for sending the drawings over. I'm excited to print these out at work tomorrow. Hi Russ, I'd be curious to learn what changepoints were made from the original 1960's version to Kelly's later version. I can already see some slight changes to the frame/crosshead between the two image...
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 5:50 am
- Forum: Members' Websites and Boats
- Topic: Been a bit quiet lately, this should liven it up.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13187
Re: Been a bit quiet lately, this should liven it up.
She's a beautiful launch. I can't wait to see more photos of her! We've all been busy me thinks. South of the northwestern border there have been a few boat meets like the California Delta Meet, and others. I've been on a three+ week stint of all steam from working on a Liberty Ship, to the delta bo...
- Sun Sep 17, 2023 8:47 pm
- Forum: Technical - Engines and Boilers
- Topic: My column-style steamengine
- Replies: 79
- Views: 245610
Re: My column-style steamengine
Looking wonderful Dietrich. I expect you'll be seeing much improvement from the "x" rings.
- Thu Jul 20, 2023 6:34 am
- Forum: Technical - Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Boiler Safety
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6236
Boiler Safety
Interesting read for the would-be home boiler maker...
https://www.nationalboard.org/index.asp ... 164&ID=441
https://www.nationalboard.org/index.asp ... 164&ID=441
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 2:55 pm
- Forum: Technical - Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Cylinder packing question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6829
Re: Cylinder packing question
Many factors involved, as stated above.
Have you been 'stroking the limbs of the dragon' (lubricating the piston and valve rods)? A mixture of steam cylinder oil and graphite applied with your sibling's toothbrush or an old antisieze brush will do the trick for lubricant.
Have you been 'stroking the limbs of the dragon' (lubricating the piston and valve rods)? A mixture of steam cylinder oil and graphite applied with your sibling's toothbrush or an old antisieze brush will do the trick for lubricant.
- Fri Jun 09, 2023 4:44 pm
- Forum: Rally Reports
- Topic: 1,000 Islands Steamboat Meet
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4985
Re: 1,000 Islands Steamboat Meet
What a beautiful region. My mom grew up in Montreal and we would go to the 1000 islands often when visiting my Granddad and Grandma every year.
Do you have any more photos of the meet?
Do you have any more photos of the meet?
- Wed Jun 07, 2023 7:24 pm
- Forum: Sales and Trade
- Topic: Steamboats for sale
- Replies: 0
- Views: 18825
Steamboats for sale
Boats for sale
A number of exceptional steamboats and marine engines have popped up for sale recently:
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A number of exceptional steamboats and marine engines have popped up for sale recently:
https://www.northweststeamsociety.org/classifieds
https://discoverlivesteam.com/discoverf ... arine.html