Steam Boat, 2 Cylinder, High - Low Expansion, Steam Engine 1

Steam Boat, 2 Cylinder, High - Low Expansion, Steam Engine 1
2006
Powered with wood, fast food packaging, and uneaten french fries.

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• steam
• engine
• boat

[SR722]

Wonderful little engine, it's a very smooth runner. It looks like your packing was leaking a bit, though.

[antiquesteam]

The sound of a steam engine under load is breath taking.

[hyphens]

I would not sit close to that

[Animehem]

@30flatlander I've used grasses like that for cooking with a wood burning stove it doesn't take as much as u would think but for an engine like this its a light fast growing fuel and if you gather enough its practicle

[30flatlander]

@Animehem I'm a farmer. No wild grasses can grow fast enough and supply enough heat to compensate for the burning properties of wood, coal, and oil. To feed a small steam engine for a trip around the lake you'd need exorbitant amounts of hay. Like, an entire boat load. It burns too quickly. Peat moss on the other hand, might work.

[Animehem]

@30flatlander u can also use wild grasses that grow very fast and make a good fuel sorce

[trevor55chevy265ci]

CHEESE BURGERS!

[barbarotico]

Right now the wood is available everywere. There are tree everywhere and for the green guys there are fallen trees everywhere too. and if not you can cut down the branches and leave the tree.

[30flatlander]

@barbarotico You still need something to heat the water with. Wood and coal and just as vulnerable as oil.

[barbarotico]

I LOVE STEAM ENGINES BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ENGINES OF OF SHOISE IN THE OIL CRISIS, AT LEAST FOR THE BOATS AND POWERPLANTS.

[crorivpro]

One of the major reasons the railroads went to "dirty" deisels was maintenance,

As cool as steam loco's were (and are) they were tough to maintain. They also beat the hell out of the rails. With diesels you no longer needed water tanks or coaling towers just the name a few items.

[hypnofan35]

@lilbrudder32 In the pulse engine, the steam will pulse and otherwise higher temps and pressures than than the non pulsed steam engine. It pulses than the steam auto expands while giving up most of it's heat. then on the return stroke it will recyclel the remainder. When you are doing a job, you don't have to be a genius or figure anything out. Right? Join a religion; you don't tell the priest what BS to say. It's scary OK but that is how hierarchy works.