Sad but true. The violent motion, however, was off of the Baja coast. I had H.F. fax weather maps and I had gotten all full of myself and thought I was a weather expert. The rest of the Southbound boats stayed in Turtle bay listening to alarming forecasts. I, oh so self confident in my readings of m...

I'm impressed, but Sheesh! Where is Bart. It looks like a uniflow. I'm reminded of the old hack about not complaining about how well a dog walks on its hind legs. You should be impressed that it does it at all. For me, I'm torn between being fascinated at being able to see the steam inside the engin...

I just looked up Stainless Hanger Screws and Bronze Hanger Screws on Google and Amazon and got several good looking hits. As you probably have figured out, you temporarily jam two nuts against each other to screw the hanger screw into the wood. My motor mounts in my sailboat (four hundred pound engi...

Whooo, boy. I have fought this to a standstill so many times. First, read this: http://www.propellerpages.com/?c=tech_info&f=tapers So now you know enough to be dangerous!! The reality is that it is impossible to set either a lathe compound or a taper attachment to a correct taper using the scales o...

Yeah, Ron, I suppose crud could get in there but I would think that then it wouldn't seat on closure. More to the point, from my point of view, is this continuing 'nanny' stuff. I bought an iron years ago for my laundry and it had a warning not to iron clothing while I was wearing it. What sort of d...

Personally, I don't use it that much but when I do, I'm in a state of anxiety and want it as large as I can handle. But if it is too large, the handle gets long and in the way.

Mike

Our Northwest Steam Society (U.S.A.) has a handout on boiler safety and inspection that, among many other things, warns about too large or too small of a safety valve and recommends steaming to the safety valve release point after an annual hydro test. As Fred says, this either not really a steam sa...

I don't see how a safety valve can be a 'pop' valve with a flat surface. Maybe a relief valve like on top of my electric hot water tank at home or on hydraulic systems but not on a gas pressure vessel like our boilers. I believe that the spec for a proper steam safety valve say that when it opens it...

"Y'know, those hills used to be covered with trees before those steam launch people showed up and cut them all down."

Bart, do you have an F key on your computer that produces the phrase, "smelly long-chain hydrocarbon"?

What have I started!

Mike

Aha! I didn't read that original post carefully. A weed burner. I have one of those beasts hanging on my wall. It would be trivial to make up a spare firebox door for my Beckman VFT-30 and aim the blast in as you did. And that would put the flame right up against the water leg where it will do the m...