Re: Locomotive

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:16:13 -0700, "engineman1@xxxxxxx"
<engineman1@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 29, 12:12?pm, Rex <burkhei...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
enginem...@xxxxxxx wrote:

http://engineman69.home.comcast.net/loco.html.

Vesouvious - The idea of a steam-powered bicycle sounds strangely
interesting to me. Did you finish this project?

Yes, I did, as you can see from the link "on wheels".
Unfortunately I can only go about 200 yards before running too low on
pressure.
I have considered various things such as fueling it with Mapp gas
rather than propane or using a secondary tank to store pressurized
steam.
So far I haven't done either.
To learn more about it go to:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:lPuHIwwnQs4J:www.vesuviussteam.ca/+Vesuvius+steam&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=firefox-a
You probably won't be able to buy any castings.
Engineman

You don't want to store a reserve of pressurized steam, you want to
store superheated water that can flash into steam on demand. 1 gallon
of water = 3,000 gallons of steam - much more oomph for the cubic
inch. (But you have to be careful how you restrain it, or it just
increases the *BOOM* factor.)

That, or for a flash boiler where you don't want a reserve you need
to get the BTUH input into the boiler up. Might make it easier if you
didn't try to hang it all off the front forks, leave room for a
physically larger boiler.

You can get a 5-Lb. or 11-Lb. "camping size" Propane cylinder on a
rear rack, and fabricate a larger feedwater saddle-tank and put it
over the rear wheel. Won't look as pretty as the all-brass example
you have now, but it will raise the functionality - and as a safety
concern it gets the cylinder relief valve a decent distance downwind
from the burner.

Then again, you could call Manchester Tank and see if you can get
two or three of the 5-Lb steel Propane tanks copper plated...

--<< Bruce >>--

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