That requires a fan, which a steam atomising burner doesn't have....
Daniel

Great Pictures, thanks. You must do a lot of brass polishing!
Daniel

asal0312 wrote:Some pictures of Lee Mills 2015. I took my boat "Hope".

Well we've tried hard to make vegetable oil explode, but it just doesn't happen. The same steam atomising burner will do it with diesel on the same setting very easily. The resulting whoomph made all the floorboards jump out of the bilge. The vegetable oil just ends up coating everything and when it...

Won't happen with vegetable oil, will just slowly burn. Will often happen with diesel.
Daniel

What was the fuel? What type of oil?
Daniel

Nope, its a single, 4 by 5. Have you got a steam chest pressure gauge? I put one on mind and was amazed at actually how little pressure the engine sees, considerably less than boiler pressure. As I say, mine ran terribly without the air pump, yet is wonderful with it, and faster for no extra work on...

I don't understand why anyone would think having an air pump adds complexity to the system, its just one more pump and a couple of connections. Sure it may be a bit of a process building it, and fitting it, but once its done, it just goes without any attention. The water from the condenser has to go...

Fred, The boat has its own listing in the members websites and steamboats forum, on the second page, listed as S.S. Zeltic. Once i've sorted some more current pictures etc, I'll update that page and add her to the thread you mention. need to complete some work first.... Daniel Daniel, (dhic001), Zel...

The picture below is rather old and out of date, but it does show masthead and port lamps fitted. I have subsequently added a stern light where the lifebuoy is sitting. My current stern light has no glass in it, but has a modern electric stern light mounted inside it, which hardly anyone notices. Wi...

By marker lights, so you mean navigation lights? ie Red port light, green starboard etc? If so, they were oil lamps rather than acetylene, although acetylene would have been used for a search light. http://www.davey.co.uk/ do navigation lights, look under lighting, the oil navigation lamps. They hav...