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Model vertical boiler
… eatured an item about building Vic Smeed's River Queen open steam launch design, using a dummy horizontal boiler and mock steam engine. Incorporated into the model was a smoke/steam generator. The clinker hull was GRP. https://pocketmags.co …
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Model vertical boiler
… use. Might help to make a dummy engine and boiler. https://steamshed.com/free-plans-for-model-steam-engines/#boat Martin555.
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Model vertical boiler
… seem to be produced anymore. If you weren't bothered about steam coming out of it, it should be easy enough to mock up a boiler out of a tin or similar with mahogany lagging - or make up a cylinder from styrene sheet. Many steam launches h …
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Friends
" We can let off steam, such as moaning about the Welsh governments' reluctance to bring in any easement as there is in England." Be careful what you wish for Nerys! Several northern states here in Germany had prematurely eased restrictions …
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Friends
… , and there's enough of those at the moment. We can let off steam, such as moaning about the Welsh governments' reluctance to bring in any easement as there is in England. Thanks everyone and particularly Stephen for making this site the fo …
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Bought !
… red an unlucky number. Good history at this link http://www.steamtugbrent.org/history-of-tid-class-tugs.html It makes a lovely model tug and i will have to build one some day.
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Model Boat building 1905 style
… er bow and counter stern. Not only that, but how to build a steam engine and boiler for her. Another chapter on how to build a vertical engine for a steam launch. In this they suggest that every piece is made in wood , then passed over to a …
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Model Boat building 1905 style
… st say I'm a sucker for old model boat books too Nerys. The steam engine part of your post reminded me of something Basil Harley once wrote. He described what he called the 'easily done by a clever lad' style of writing in past books, where …
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SY Minnow water test
… reta was my first model started in 1974, been bonkers about steam yachts ever since. Looking forward to news of your paddler! Nerys, loved that story! I have always felt a bit uncomfortable about my fascination with the playthings of the Vi …
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flexible Beech
… f Robbobs build log,it is going pretty well. I successfully steamed the gunwhale and chine stringers.However,the rubbing strakes would not have it! I have seen a passing mention on this site of flexible beech,and looked at a couple of suppl …
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SY Minnow water test
… one.They aren't particularly cheap, although cheaper than a steam engine! I found it fairly easy to set up once I got my head round it. It is all mounted on a board which attaches to the boat with magnets, so is easily removable. Bill, it w …
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Lockdown Complaints
… ies often had to go to the boiler room to fetch a bucket of steam.
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SY Minnow water test
… is Ian, will look outstanding on the water btw, What smoke/steam unit are you using? it is very good Cheers, Pete
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SY Minnow water test
… djustable and may need turning down a bit! The speaker is a steam whistle - I made a port to carry the sound out of a grating in the superstructure but it remains to be seen how effective this is out on the water, only one way to find out a …
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SY Minnow water test
… stallation of the mist unit - hopefully it will look like a steam yacht even though it isn't really! When Minnow is finally finished I hope to start on my sharpie Egret. It would be interesting for you to build another full sized dinghy - g …
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open boat or launch
… ts by Krick on the Cornwall model boat site 1 the Alexandra steam launch and 2 the Borkum island supply vessel.Both would make good open boats for live steam.The kits are a little above my price range,Looking at each I know I can build one …
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open boat or launch
… ss -will send you a list . Also check Sarik for plans under steamboats - Vic Smeed did a very nice clinker open launch River Queen and a half size River Princess - depends which size you need . A picture of a friends one is posted elsewhere …
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Lockdown Complaints
Re - Ours was a bucket of blue steam and a left handed monkey wrench. When I started at the main NZ Toyota agency around 1972, the guys sent me up to the local performance shop to ask for a long weight (thought I was thick) walked up and sp …
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Lockdown Complaints
Ours was a bucket of blue steam and a left handed monkey wrench.The other was to send the new guy back to the shop for a long (weight) wait.At the shop they would tell him to hold on and they would check.Coming back a time later and sending …
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Lockdown Complaints
… to walk 5 miles to the local garage to ask for a bucket of steam and a long weight, (or a left handed screwdriver so my grandfather could undo the cupboard hinges) JB
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battery drill motor
… catch up with me. Just take a look at my build logs on the "Steampunk Pike" and "Evolution" and then tell me i am not LOL!!!!!!!!!! Martin555.
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old wood model can the thing be saved?
… flattens most things As red says, for the bent keel I would steam or soak it in warm water and put it under the car battery to straighten it out. Worked on some bits I had to straighten on my 55 year old Sea Scout. I put kitchen roll paper …
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Deca box
… you can connect up to 32 LEDs before the supply runs out of steam. BUT you'd need a big, hefty 3.9Ω 3W ceramic resistor to dissipate the ~2.4Watts of heat. Cct current would be 769mA. Choice is yours If you use a multi-turn pot I think a 1K …
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Machine shop
… ne type) variable speed operation. If you are into building steam engines the mill is a must - have an uncompleted twin which has been put away as drilling and filing by hand is not only tedious and hard work but its very easy to slip and c …
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Power cuts
… uilt by Hitachi the boilers need to be 1200mm higher as the steam is to hot for the turbines
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Nostalgia
… re right about sedate, (see the vid of the Fairacre at full steam on a 3s), but they will do that for years. Drop of oil on the shaft ends now and again and you're racing (well almost) Thanks for the pic realignment, don't know what happene …
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Frames for hull construction
… e District, had a row on Windermere, visited the Windermere Steamboat Museum, trip on one of their boats, Coniston for a ride on the steamboat 'Gondola'. From there to the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine. A look at the Union Canal. Then …
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New projects
… iranda, got the plans a while ago for the project I had the steam plant from another boat, the Clyde puffer. I wanted to show the steam plant off and the puffer is a closed boat so in went a motor for the drive and out came the steam plant …