Fusion burner 2

Built this one today for my big Wilesco engines. Had to go with a slightly different design because the front of the firebox is pretty crowded, and I wanted to try a single larger tube instead of two or even 3 little ones. I did not get a great test run because of the gusty winds, but once it got going it ran well enough all things considered.

Despite what I said you do not have to top up the main tank every 5 or so minutes. Towards the end I let it go and it ran for at least 10 minutes before I had to snuff it because the boiler was low.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Steam
• Engine
• Meths
• Alcohol
• Burner
• Wilesco
• D22

[6toeNL]

How does the alcohol goes in to the smaller tube you've soldered on it ?

[MisterOcclusion]

I have a small aluminum tank (actually a "spice jar" from a dollar store). Gravity feeds the fuel from that into the main burner tank. Most of the time this gravity tank sits at a level below the burner, so that any excess fuel in the burner (meths expands as it heats) may flow back into this tank (hence the burner will never spill over). Every now and then I just lift up the gravity tank for a few seconds and let it top up the burner tank. IMHO it's about the safest meths burner going.

[MisterOcclusion]

...It occurs to me that you might mean the burner tube itself. That one is easy. That tube is loosely packed with a cotton rope, or similar material. The rope extends back into the fuel tank. capillary action wicks fuel from the tank into the burner tube.

When the fuel tank is as full as I let it become, some fuel can flow directly into the burner tube, which helps to prime it initially.

[randomguy9898]

i like it much beter than the old ones, clean and simple.

[MisterOcclusion]

I'm all about simple ;)

I've found that the more over-engineered something is, the worse it ends up working. At least when *I* build it.

[nothadnotbad]

what is that thing?

[chrisjb1977]

How do you make the single long slit down the length of the pipe?

[bigcoolviking]

@shadoskill steel copper coated modern pennies. same in the UK nowadays... solid copper too expensive and too soft.

[SthealthRaider]

how come the solder doesnt fail of the heat?

[fizzy1212rules]

@MisterOcclusion lol im sure its interesting

[fizzy1212rules]

@shadoskill  lol its too funny , magnetic pennies lmfao xD

[pyroman675]

thats one nice peace of machinery you got there misterocclusoin (srry if i spelt it rong)

do you now where i could get those steam hydraulic things :)

[MisterOcclusion]

I found a document online somewhere a few months ago that gives the composition of coinage and the dates that each alloy was used on which coin. Interesting stuff

[iman10000]

Canadian pennies are made of copper plated steel instead of nickel nowadays because it's cheaper (dunno about the US though, might be). Government wouldn't want to spend more than 1 cent on a penny anyways.

[shadoskill]

w8 w8 w8 w8 w8 magnetic pennies? wif?