You can use some sort of round object as a form. Just for fun I've bent copper tubing using things like coffee and soup cans. You should not need to worry about kinking as long as you use a form and keep and any bend radius more than twice the radius of the tubing. Just make sure you clean up the ends of the tube after you cut it. I've only found any real need to be careful if its bending of something like 1/8" tube, but I'm assuming your probably using 1/4" or something larger then that
This is amazing congrats on a sucessfully running design.
Was this video before or after the boiler failed. I have a steam bicycle that uses a steel boiler but others like it had copper boilers and the copper ones would fail if the boiler went dry maybe that was your problem? the plans for my bicycle come with boiler plans it works very well, its 2 coils of steel(copper) tubing 1 inside the other with fire at one end. I just don't know how how cheaply you can make a good boiler though
@Stanleyguy101 Thanks. This was before the boiler failed. I believe that the copper failed at least in part because of running dry occasionally. strangely the section of tubing that failed was exposed to relatively little flame or heat.
do you know of a good way to bend tubing into a coil without having a company do if for you? i was thinking about packing the tube with sand (so it wont kink) and (trying) to wrap it around something. any info on boiler design would be great. its hard to find.
We got the boiler from an old school project. It was stainless steel and too short to be efficient. We were forced to modify it to improve efficiency as much as possible. To do this we added copper coils in the front and back that doubled the efficiency of the boiler. Eventually they burst violently (surprising based on research) and we decided to put it on hold until we get a chance to design and build our own boiler that will provide plenty of power as efficiently as possible.
You can use some sort of round object as a form. Just for fun I've bent copper tubing using things like coffee and soup cans. You should not need to worry about kinking as long as you use a form and keep and any bend radius more than twice the radius of the tubing. Just make sure you clean up the ends of the tube after you cut it. I've only found any real need to be careful if its bending of something like 1/8" tube, but I'm assuming your probably using 1/4" or something larger then that
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This is amazing congrats on a sucessfully running design.
Was this video before or after the boiler failed. I have a steam bicycle that uses a steel boiler but others like it had copper boilers and the copper ones would fail if the boiler went dry maybe that was your problem? the plans for my bicycle come with boiler plans it works very well, its 2 coils of steel(copper) tubing 1 inside the other with fire at one end. I just don't know how how cheaply you can make a good boiler though
Stanleyguy101 2 months ago
@Stanleyguy101 Thanks. This was before the boiler failed. I believe that the copper failed at least in part because of running dry occasionally. strangely the section of tubing that failed was exposed to relatively little flame or heat.
do you know of a good way to bend tubing into a coil without having a company do if for you? i was thinking about packing the tube with sand (so it wont kink) and (trying) to wrap it around something. any info on boiler design would be great. its hard to find.
ahlgrenator 2 months ago
Amazing result for such a small amount of money. What kind of boiler?
fizzguts 4 months ago
@fizzguts
We got the boiler from an old school project. It was stainless steel and too short to be efficient. We were forced to modify it to improve efficiency as much as possible. To do this we added copper coils in the front and back that doubled the efficiency of the boiler. Eventually they burst violently (surprising based on research) and we decided to put it on hold until we get a chance to design and build our own boiler that will provide plenty of power as efficiently as possible.
ahlgrenator 3 months ago
Amazing, strictly amazing
ccolwell19941 5 months ago
guys this is brilliant - your as crazy as us brits
trevortrevortsr2 6 months ago
@trevortrevortsr2
Thanks! when we looked online at other steambikes for ideas, we found very few but the ones we found were almost all from the UK.
ahlgrenator 3 months ago