Best boiler size for small static engines?

[Dominic BramleyParticipant @dominicbramley60728]

I would also recommend Martin Gearing’s ME Vertical Boiler that was serialised from Jan 2018 – June 2019 – so is in the online archive if you don’t have the magazines.

I was very pleased with mine and as a beginner appreciated Martin’s very detailed instructions. It happily runs my 10V.

It looks like noggin end metals still sell materials packs which simplifies things further.

Here is a video of mine running :

https://youtu.be/xCclavQAQjA

Dom

[Paul LousickParticipant @paullousick59116]

John P.

Where did you get castings and drawings for the steam pump behind the engine in your photo ?

Paul

[John PurdyParticipant @johnpurdy78347]

Paul

It's a Stuart Turner model, #34-50-72475 on their current web site. I acquired the casting set back in the mid '90s along with a number of other unfinished ST models from a fellow down the road. Finally got to build it about 10 years ago. Haven't run it on steam yet but it tics over (?) nicely on a few PSI of air. I keep meaning to tee it onto the steam line from the boiler but haven't got around to it, got as far as making the displacement lubricator for it. The most difficult part of building it is the valves and valve chambers which require some very accurate positioning and machining if it's going to work.

John

[John PurdyParticipant @johnpurdy78347]

Jason

I believe Baz was talking about the links that have replaced the pics in my original post here of 06/2016.

John

Edited By John Purdy on 21/07/2022 00:33:41

[michael suttonParticipant @michaelsutton34078]

John, thanks for that. the links still not working for me but I found them in your albums.

A little too complicated for our needs yet, my 12 year old grandson is building an S50 and boiler as a first project. I have no experience with steam at all so we are both on a steep learning curve. I drew up a basic boiler but didn't realise that it needs to be matched to the steam requirements of the engine, along with safety issues but we're getting there

The machining of the parts isn't a problem, I have a pretty well equiped workshop and welding bay, the research is taking the time.

Best regards Mick

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

John, there are links showing in both your posts the old and the recent both of which are dead but the images were in your post of 17.59 yesterday for a while.

[John PurdyParticipant @johnpurdy78347]

Jason

Yes I just noticed that. The pics in my post from yesterday have gone and the links give a "Page not Found" error msg. As you say the pics were there for a while yesterday. Any idea what's going on???

John

[John PurdyParticipant @johnpurdy78347]

This is Jason Posting

Not sure of the reason but I'm going to add them as you would have done and see what happens

[John PurdyParticipant @johnpurdy78347]

Jason
I think I know what happened. When I went to add the pics to my post yesterday I couldn't find them in my albums (finger trouble! ) so I re-loaded them into my "Misc." folder so I could add them to my post. A short while later I found the originals in their own folder so I deleted the ones in "Misc." that I had just added, as a result the link from my post to the pics was no longer valid, duh!!! The same thing must have happened to the pics in my previous post. I remember re-organizing the pics in my albums a while back so that's probably why the pics disappeared from my post in 2016. I guess there are probably now a number of my previous post where the pics are no longer visible. Sorry to everyone for the problems this has caused.
John

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

That will be it.

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