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by wsmcycle
Wed Dec 21, 2016 1:49 pm
Forum: Welcome
Topic: Newbie now has hull for "just an engine"
Replies: 16
Views: 16727

Re: Newbie now has hull for "just an engine"

WOW that is a nice hull.
I have a stuart 6A in a 20 foot boat. It is OK not overly powerful but fun.

Fred, thanks for the formula for pitch. ive long pondered this and never put together the fact that the pitch is the same at all diameters and therefore the complex prop shape.
by wsmcycle
Tue Dec 20, 2016 10:19 pm
Forum: Welcome
Topic: Newbie now has hull for "just an engine"
Replies: 16
Views: 16727

Re: Newbie now has hull for "just an engine"

Please show some pix of the new hull.
by wsmcycle
Fri Dec 16, 2016 2:04 pm
Forum: Steamboat Photography
Topic: Christmas parade fort smith AR
Replies: 1
Views: 6253

Christmas parade fort smith AR

16 kids 6 adults. 80#s of steam to blow the whistle for every kid that asked. Great Fun for my family and friends. Brand new paint on "fearless". She's 32 feet with a 1918 Navy K engine. It was THE hit along the parade route. Pulled by my 1947 GMC dump truck. "don't believe everything you read on th...
by wsmcycle
Fri Nov 04, 2016 12:27 pm
Forum: Welcome
Topic: Hello from Oklahoma!
Replies: 4
Views: 6925

Re: Hello from Oklahoma!

hello, welcome to the forum. you are a student in norman? i am in Fort smith ar. not too far away. Come see me and we will go steaming on the arkansas river.
what is your major? where is home?
by wsmcycle
Mon Oct 17, 2016 4:50 pm
Forum: Members' Websites and Boats
Topic: Nyitra I
Replies: 158
Views: 185768

Re: Nyitra I

"spending all of your time fussing with the power plant instead of navigating."
I have done this to the point of nearly running into the NON-navigable side of the river.
Ah! steam boating. an overwhelming challenge for the solo operator! and yet So fun!
by wsmcycle
Mon Oct 17, 2016 4:38 pm
Forum: Members' Websites and Boats
Topic: Shelduck
Replies: 19
Views: 22532

Re: Shelduck

the boat a wood are beautiful. What a courageous job and fine result!
by wsmcycle
Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:16 pm
Forum: Members' Websites and Boats
Topic: Nyitra I
Replies: 158
Views: 185768

Re: Nyitra I

I pull water straight out of the Arkansas river thru a strainer. I have an eccentric pump on the 6A , a hand pump(yuk) and a pennberthy. The injector sometimes won't get going at 60#. I don't want to blow-down to fill. it must be able to put out at 80#. I bought a few that claimed 120 but the flow w...
by wsmcycle
Fri Sep 23, 2016 2:18 pm
Forum: Members' Websites and Boats
Topic: Nyitra I
Replies: 158
Views: 185768

Re: Nyitra I

Congratulation Nyitra
Were you able to pump water into the boiler with that pump? What pressure. I want to have an electric pump backup but haven't found one that pust out enough pressure. about 80#s wouldn't be bad.
by wsmcycle
Sat Jun 04, 2016 3:15 pm
Forum: Technical - Engines and Boilers
Topic: Glands- Any improvements?
Replies: 20
Views: 21020

Re: Glands- Any improvements?

Sorry all! My leaking is from the water pump! Not the piston rods. I see now why you said "side to side" movement (my wobble is vertical). I made a new closer tolerance bushing/packing compressor yesterday. I am anxious to try it out. It is going to rain all day here in Arkansas or I would already b...
by wsmcycle
Fri Jun 03, 2016 5:58 pm
Forum: Technical - Engines and Boilers
Topic: Glands- Any improvements?
Replies: 20
Views: 21020

Re: Glands- Any improvements?

Bart. That kind of agrees with my thinking except this wobble would be vertical not side to side. Maybe there is something mysterious here that i am missing but on the 6a the piston/shaft moves on the eccentric perpendicular to the axis of the engine. However, either way, side to side or top to bott...