Steam Engine Lawnmower Running Nicely

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Uploaded by on Oct 27, 2010

Steam Engine Lawnmower Running Nicely

With the new (huge) boiler, it runs for a very long time and runs fairly fast. It goes as well as a normal lawnmower at 50 PSI, tomorrow I will get another 4 M of copper piping to make it run better still.

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  • must be the most inefficient engine in the world

    but i think it is great that a young bloke like you has some interest in steam

    thanks for posting

  • @doubleboost It eats a piece of kindling every 15 seconds. However, when I still had this boiler on it with a heat reflector on it I think it was quite a bit more efficient but still ate more wood than a p**nstar.

  • sweet mower! did you just fix the cam to allow it to run on steam? and is that a propane fueled boiler?

  • @ivankoran Its running on wood. I had to make a whole new cam and modify the con-rod. It has 12 M of copper piping now and a new motor. I will run it on saturday.

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  • @also blow the exhauststeam to the fire ore aroud the Boiler :-)

  • if ya collect the grass and suck it to fire ... :-) am make mor isolation around the Boiler ... i hope you got a security popupvalve for it...

  • starts easier than my mower. Nice one.

  • 18 likes 0 dislikes yaa

  • Mow the lawn /and/ get a free steam bath, sounds epic :D

  • Very good. As a professor, I do like what you did. A full conversion of a gas engine to steam...Excellent Job. Personally, I love stationary steam engine. Charge a battery with a 12 volt car generator attached to your steam engine...and then connect the battery to an electrical motor to do some work with it. You can use your lawnmower better !!!

  • Sorry sounds like a kiwi bro probably wont work.

  • Aussie know how!!! When the petrol runs out its good to know we can still cut the grass.:)

    On Ya.

  • Get like a dirt bike radiator for a condenser on the exaust you cuold just re use the water and have a free mower

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