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Re: Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
Thanks Martin, Flash steam is more complex than your run of the mill boiler. You could be right about the mad bit, haha. Thanks again. Cheers, Stephen.
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Re: Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
Hi Stephen, There is a lot more to steam power than meets the eye. The last three photos look like something a Mad Professor is experimenting with and not a water to steam converter LOL!! I dose look extremely impressive though Excellent wo …
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Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
… hat said a 3 cylinder pump was preferable for feeding flash steam systems. My pumps are driven by a small motor through a speed control. The more steam I want the more water I feed. I decided to make a rail to mount as much equipment as pos …
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Re: Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
Hi Stephen, Although i find steam power very interesting unfortunately it is way above my skills. I am following this blog as i am learning more about steam. Keep it coming. Martin555.
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Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
… the guys at the model boat group I belong to tried a Flash steam / steam generator / mono tube boiler or which ever name you wish to use. Tom was saying that he should be able to raise steam within a couple of minutes with his new system, …
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Steaming the bow
Steaming the bow Whilst the fibre glass sets I will occupy myself doing a few necessary jobs but not very exciting. This may be helpful to others in there building challenges. This is about steaming ply to a permanent curve because bending …
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Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
… eams, this turned out to be a really good idea. Back to the steam engine. The following steam engine issues happened over a number of years, not necessarily in order with building of the hull as presented in these articles. To recap from pa …
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Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
… sent me some photos of his modified engine. This mention of steam engine problems and other steam related issues will be covered in the future. Updates will slow considerably now that the pre-written stuff is depleted, also I work full time …
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Re: Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
Very nice work Stephen. I bet when the neighbours saw your steamer that thought you were making Moonshine LOL!!! Martin555.
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Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
… after dinner for an hour or so and from memory I could make steam then fix two pair of planks in a week. I planked from the keel and deck edge meeting in the middle. Planks were made and attached in pairs, when needed they were steamed, wai …
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Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
… t easier for me to hold and trim down planks. I also made a steaming apparatus, an old electric kettle being the steam source a length of galvanised down pipe with a “T” put into it at one end and a piece of mesh bent to form a shelf for pl …
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Re: Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
… I already have the hull and engine finished, just need some steam now.
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Re: Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
… s it happens to be an open hull boat like most of the small steam launches......... Lovely work and lots of persistence
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Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
… on, I was no longer happy about trying to remove the larger steam plant through a deck cut out, remember the rash decision a while back! Firstly I would need to cut the deck as there was no way my steam plant with cradle/frame was going to …
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Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
… sing it for gluing the keel. I intended to make the ribs by steam bending Huon pine, after several failed attempts with the wood breaking. I abandoned Huon pine as a material, the problem in my opinion was this material is a Soft Wood there …
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Re: Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
… to that that my little engine after a couple of runs leaked steam profusely. I will get back to the steam side of things in later updates, there is a long way to go. Thanks for your interest. Cheers, Stephen.
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Re: Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
It has more steam than i have at the moment LOL!!! Martin555.
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Re: Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
… that while the boiler looks good it fails to produce enough steam. Cheers, Stephen.
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Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
… lf an hour each day before work started. I would work on my steam engine, added to that my father had a very well equipped workshop at his home although at that time I lived on the other side of Melbourne making it difficult to just "drop i …
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Re: Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
… lovely boiler and engine. I have always been fascinated by steam and it's power but i do not posses the skills to be able to make such technical equipment. You on the other hand have the skills in abundance. Absolutely fantastic a beautifu …
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Re: Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.
… nt problems with the running as it would tend to run out of steam - quite literally. Perhaps that might be why you are having running problems. Owned a Cheddar Kompact at one time - designed for the Mini Steam class - even with that the boi …
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Re: Deck Steam Winch
Hi Fred. Steam winch looks really good. Well done. Bill
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Re: Deck Steam Winch
Nice job on the steam winch. Rick
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steamer for planker tube
this will be powered (steamed ) via a wall paper steamer 3kw of power fed into a insert yet to be fitted
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Paddle Steamer Waverley
… e then. They say that it is nice to feel that she is a real steamship once again. A decision will be taken shortly regarding any passenger activity this year, but if there is, it will only be a few trips in the Clyde area. She will not be c …
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Re: plank steamer
… le before becoming soft it is well below the temperature of steam. In the end I made a plank steamer form metal down pipe and an old kettle. I have attached a few photos of my crude though effective rig. Cheers, Stephen.
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… ionally a yacht. Building was on the first floor as was the steam box which was about two feet square and thirty foot long. The fire was on the ground floor with a water tank above and a pipe feeding steam into the box. When it was thought …
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Re: plank steamer
That looks like an interesting steamer for planking, what are you using as a heat source? As an apprentice boat builder, it was my job to keep the steamer going when we were planking up a boat. I went round with a wheelbarrow picking up sha …