Hi "CB", sorry for slight delay...lets see if I can answer your questions... First some parts... Here are the pulleys with Taperlock bushes and one of the Pillow Block Bearings (Actually 2 of these I had in stock and were RHP of the same dimensions). All of these supplied by BearingBoys [url]http://...

Well it's not done yet, but Befur is certainly designed to be a steam yacht. Leak Compound and Chinese Junk Rig - lots of words and pics here http://sy-befur.co.uk...

Should be in the water next spring.... (fingers crossed)

I am in the process of undertaking "final" assembly/finishing and setting of the Leak Compound (the smaller one) that I have been building and commenting on in my blog... The engine runs on air (when piped up as a HP twin), but I have some doubts about the timing of the valve events. The "book" from...

Thanks for the advice and information. ..I will take care with the lubrication

Thank you gents for your input. This morning I licked my calculating pencil (aka Google sheets) and looked at the loadings involved (please make allowances for my amateur engineer status). The interweb tells me that the loading on a plain bearing is a combination of the bearing area (1/3rd of the to...

Just FYI and following on from all your advice I thought you might be interested in the assembled components for the prop-shaft belt drive (see pics below), comments welcome. Dimensions: propshaft 1.25" dia, three deep grove ball races in plumber's blocks (two to take belt loads, one as a thrust bea...

Hi John I have the original Lawrie Lawrence articles on which DAG Brown based his ideas (jig reamers etc). and a good friend of mine has built a number of smaller injectors based on DAG and others work....perhaps a two injector solution as you suggest might be good. I will be condensing so we also n...

Check out some recent back issues of "Live Steam", a couple of months ago they had a series of articles on building your own injector. I didn't save those ( I'm NEVER going to build one!) BUT if I still remember them they must have been pretty recent! rp Thanks Ron, I will see if I can find relevan...

Every thought about looking at the nozzel designs for a penberthy high pressure injector and using that as a starting point? One of my water sources for my launch is a 1/2" high pressure penberthy. It works 50PSI up to 200PSI. I can't tell beyond that because 200 is the MAWP for my boiler. I could ...

I am contemplating building an injector for Befur with a friend of mine who has successfully made a number of smaller (model engineering size) injectors.... The question is are there designs/specs for Steam Launch size HP (250psi) injectors around??? Thanks M I take it that there are no new ones be...