The Steamboating Forum

farmerden wrote:This just keeps getting better and better! Now don't tell me White towells? For a single guy this is getting pretty fancy. Do you think it might be a chick magnet? Keep going Ron -I love it!! Den

Dunno about that rail though............................................not going to keep much water in!

farmerden wrote:Do you think it might be a chick magnet?

Fingers crossed...

Got the sink back from the powder coat. Mounted and the drain hooked to the graywater tank. The faucets will be two bronze ball valves and 1/4" brass pipe. For hot water, going to make about three wraps of the hot water line copper around the inner stack. Doesn't take up much room at all. Much needed for overnight trips.



-Ron

Ron, very good. Where possible, every fidley or engine room should have a sink!

DetroiTug wrote:... For hot water, going to make about three wraps of the hot water line copper around the inner stack...

You might want to include a pressure relief valve on the hot water line, exhausting over the side (remember the banging and hammering in the pipes from the hot water heater connected to the kitchen stove at granma's).

Going totally off topic, I'm glad someone has posted something, I was beginning to think something was wrong wiv me 'puter. It seems to have been days since there was anything on here. (Probably isn't really that long!)

Great job Ron!

Thanks Mike...

Ron, Leave it to wisdom to throw a wrench in.. I had not really considered that being an isolated line and could possibly build up high pressure, but it definitely could. I will put a small 1/4" relief valve in.

Here is the sink with the erm.. faucets installed. Going for the utilitarian look. Those should last a while. That's a short brass garden hose sprayer on there, should work fine as a diffuser.



Next - what I did today. These are a set of jumpseats. Actually jumpseat/cookstove flat/ benches that fold up out of the way. One on each side of the back wall of the cabin. On 10-12 hour trips, standing gets a little old. Notice too, the curtains are in. They are really just canvas flaps that roll up and down and tie each way. One on the portholes too. I'm sleeping on the tug at the show and some people show up very early. Speaking of the show, two more days until Mid Michigan meet at Hastings Mi.





-Ron

artemis wrote:

DetroiTug wrote:... For hot water, going to make about three wraps of the hot water line copper around the inner stack...

You might want to include a pressure relief valve on the hot water line, exhausting over the side (remember the banging and hammering in the pipes from the hot water heater connected to the kitchen stove at granma's).

And be very wary of the temperature, which sounds as if it's unregulated.

Thanks for the input on this. Considering the issues raised, I've changed plans. I'll probably go with an instantaneous propane unit later on. The Cold side is all piped up and works great. The hose sprayer is not going to work, I'll have to make a diffuser.

-Ron

I would steer away from any gas systems on a steamboat. also, why not use the steam you have available to create your hot water. I'd look at building your own hot water cylinder, and investigate controlling it by a temperature control valve, see: http://www.spiraxsarco.com/pdfs/SB/f11_07.pdf
Whether they are economically available, I don't know, but I'm sure something along those lines could be made.
Daniel