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- Fri May 05, 2023 3:51 am
- Forum: Technical - non Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Flotation
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17759
Re: Flotation
The only steamboat I've seen sinking (other than slowly at the dock due to leaks :) ) is one that ran into a submerged piling and stove in some delicate planking. They ran for the shore and waited until low tide to patch the hole; refloated at high tide and steamed full speed to the launch ramp. The...
- Wed May 03, 2023 2:50 pm
- Forum: Technical - non Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Flotation
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17759
Re: Flotation
This flotation is required by the US Coast Guard in commercially produced boats. In general, traditional small craft with steam plants often don't have the interior volume to provide emergency flotation, which includes buoyancy for people, engines, etc. This is exacerbated if the boat burns firewood...
- Mon Mar 13, 2023 5:31 pm
- Forum: Technical - Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Lagging....
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16200
Re: Lagging....
Of course... that's how that bronze stays so shiny.Rub it in, Steve. Rub it in.
- Bart
- Mon Feb 27, 2023 6:39 am
- Forum: Technical - Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Building a Big Engine
- Replies: 20
- Views: 35782
Re: Building a Big Engine
Man, that's a big wet air pump!
Thanks for posting that. Inspiring.
- Bart
Thanks for posting that. Inspiring.
- Bart
- Wed Feb 22, 2023 9:41 pm
- Forum: Technical - non Engines and Boilers
- Topic: winter musings - Otto the Pilot ?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3698
winter musings - Otto the Pilot ?
Our double ender steamboat Rainbow really needs someone hanging onto the tiller... some of this may disappear when I build a new rudder someday, but in the mean time I keep thinking of an autopilot. I realize that automation of this sort is somewhat heretical to many steamboaters, but I find myself ...
- Wed Feb 22, 2023 9:01 pm
- Forum: Technical - Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Lagging....
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16200
Re: Lagging....
I have a foot or so of flexible steam pipe between my boiler and engine. Not that it needs to flex seriously but to fix a cracking issue I had with ordinary copper pipe. In spite of some seriously solid motor beds in my new hull, the engine does move a bit when working hard. The question being, are...
- Mon Feb 20, 2023 6:55 pm
- Forum: Technical - Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Lagging....
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16200
Re: Lagging....
There are also various products available made from fiberglass sold as exhaust wrap. Keep in mind that unless covered with a water proof coating, these wraps will soak up rain or spray making them less effective both as insulators and in preventing burns, and for those covering covering steel rather...
- Fri Feb 17, 2023 10:29 pm
- Forum: Technical - non Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Wanted - antidote for poor record keeping issue
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3156
Re: Wanted - antidote for poor record keeping issue
Looks like an early photo of Detroit Tug's boat.
See viewtopic.php?f=4&t=295&start=40#p1704 from 2010.
- Bart
See viewtopic.php?f=4&t=295&start=40#p1704 from 2010.
- Bart
- Wed Feb 01, 2023 4:40 pm
- Forum: Technical - Engines and Boilers
- Topic: Lagging....
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16200
Re: Lagging....
That's Tite Bond III ( http://www.titebond.com/product/glues/e8d40b45-0ab3-49f7-8a9c-b53970f736af ). It's nice to work with something that's water cleanup; I apply it (thinned perhaps 5-10% as I'm working in a cool basement) with a cheap brush. It dries overnight (or less in warmer conditions), form...
- Tue Jan 31, 2023 5:37 pm
- Forum: Welcome
- Topic: New member
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16611
Re: New member
Peter H., welcome to the forum!
I think I saw that boat (or perhaps a twin) once while we lived in CA... was that originally an electric launch?
- Bart
I think I saw that boat (or perhaps a twin) once while we lived in CA... was that originally an electric launch?
- Bart