Keith, I came across your stuff purely by accident...and found it wonderfully soothing. I'm no kind of engineer or modeller, but now wish I'd concentrated more in craft lessons fifty years ago! However, I find watching someone as expert as you doing your stuff and describing it so brilliantly a positive antidote to all the day to day tensions in life. Thank you for all the pleasure you bring Dave
Bonjour Keith, Beautiful steam plant, even if I do not see any whistle. The water pump is particularly interesting, even if possibly a great steam sonsumer. I do not see any gas regulator, not useful for a static installation ? Amicalement, Raphaël
That is a beautiful setup Keith...however I am a little sad that there will be no painting :) ...that is OK...my medication should help me with that. Thank you for the great videos!
Keith, I have been working in a steam power plant my whole adult life. 3- 900 lb boilers putting out about 1.5 million pounds of steam per hour.....I love the series that you are making and find it all so interesting. My question is does any of your steam plants have an automatic water level controller for the boilers ? Please keep the videos coming and as soon as my son is done picking my pockets for college money I would like to donate to your cause but don't hold your breath as it seems like the end is not near.....thank you
I just recently started supporting you on Patreon because I enjoy your videos. Is it possible you could do a build video on the machined pm research #3 kit?
Another excellent series I'm looking forward to Keith! It will be very interesting to see if that little boiler has enough guts to power both the Twin Victoria and the Duplex Pump (just recirculating of course) at the same time...I'm assuming it's a multi-tubular boiler not single flue? Or maybe a single flue with cross tubes? If it's multi-tube will you be adding in a Superheater? Or will they just be running off of the Saturated Steam? I have a rather stupid idea to perhaps lessen the thermal shock to the boiler and how significantly the massive amount of cold water going into it will affect the steam pressure. Perhaps modify this condenser oil trap that you will be making for the plant into a form of feed water heater? By putting a tightly wound coil of copper piping inside the condenser that the feed water will flow through, the residual heat of the exhaust steam will be absorbed by the freshwater going through the coil and hopefully not kill the steam pressure as much. Obviously the amount of condensate will be increased significantly, but the boiler may be happier with the load it's supporting if it's getting warm water. :-))) Just a thought.
It is a brand new commercially made smal fire tube gas fired boiler. It will provide enough PSI, but its capacity is very small for engines of these sizes.
Try Googling "Cotswold Heritage Surefill Gas Tank" or you could watch this video that I did, I am sure that the principle must be somewhat similar :-)))) ruclips.net/video/3eFiTrSjDgY/видео.html
This may be a completely noob question, but would it be possible to run the pump from the low pressure steam coming off the engine? That is, from the engine exhaust?
That is the line that goes from the gas tank to the burner underneath the boiler, and the reason it's curly-qued in such a way is to make a smooth graceful turn to where it connects to the burner to prevent restriction and frictional losses, and also, seeing as the ambient temperature of the atmosphere surrounding the tank and associated plumbing is much warmer than the liquified gas in the tank, plus the radiant heat coming off of the boiler itself, the extra surface area provided by the curly-que in the plumbing will evaporate any still-liquified gas droplets that have made their way into the gas line so the burner will not sputter and gurgle.
Could the hand pump be setup to transfer water from the condenser to the water tank? (Pulling from the bottom so the oil is not pumped just the water below the oil level. If you added a sight glass to the condenser, you could tell when to stop pumping. ) Thanks for the videos. I love watching them. Am looking forward to more of the "How to build...." series.
Keith, I came across your stuff purely by accident...and found it wonderfully soothing. I'm no kind of engineer or modeller, but now wish I'd concentrated more in craft lessons fifty years ago!
However, I find watching someone as expert as you doing your stuff and describing it so brilliantly a positive antidote to all the day to day tensions in life. Thank you for all the pleasure you bring
Dave
A pristine assemblage! Looking forward to this series Keith. A 'bread & butter' job for you. Time to shine.
Love the sound of the twin Victoria running slow about 1.50 could listen to that for hours. Keep up the good work.
This is going to be an interesting series! I agree about the boiler size... especially when you see it next to the Victoria... but you never know!
those are some beautiful pieces i love the duple pump great stuff buddy
Thanks for the kind comment :-))))
An excellent video as usual; I look forward to seeing this all come together!
I'm droo--oling! I can't wait to see the progress.
Bonjour Keith,
Beautiful steam plant, even if I do not see any whistle. The water pump is particularly interesting, even if possibly a great steam sonsumer.
I do not see any gas regulator, not useful for a static installation ?
Amicalement, Raphaël
that water tank is just what i want. if you find out thats its a commercial item, please let us know where it came from
That is a beautiful setup Keith...however I am a little sad that there will be no painting :) ...that is OK...my medication should help me with that. Thank you for the great videos!
There may be a little painting ...... :-)))
Keith, I have been working in a steam power plant my whole adult life. 3- 900 lb boilers putting out about 1.5 million pounds of steam per hour.....I love the series that you are making and find it all so interesting. My question is does any of your steam plants have an automatic water level controller for the boilers ? Please keep the videos coming and as soon as my son is done picking my pockets for college money I would like to donate to your cause but don't hold your breath as it seems like the end is not near.....thank you
You can buy automatic electronic water level sensors, but it takes all the fun out of it for me ..... :-)))
I just recently started supporting you on Patreon because I enjoy your videos. Is it possible you could do a build video on the machined pm research #3 kit?
Thanks Victor, much appreciated.
Unfortunately I don't have a PM Research #3 kit to do a video on, otherwise I would as I like PM Research products.
Another excellent series I'm looking forward to Keith! It will be very interesting to see if that little boiler has enough guts to power both the Twin Victoria and the Duplex Pump (just recirculating of course) at the same time...I'm assuming it's a multi-tubular boiler not single flue? Or maybe a single flue with cross tubes? If it's multi-tube will you be adding in a Superheater? Or will they just be running off of the Saturated Steam? I have a rather stupid idea to perhaps lessen the thermal shock to the boiler and how significantly the massive amount of cold water going into it will affect the steam pressure. Perhaps modify this condenser oil trap that you will be making for the plant into a form of feed water heater? By putting a tightly wound coil of copper piping inside the condenser that the feed water will flow through, the residual heat of the exhaust steam will be absorbed by the freshwater going through the coil and hopefully not kill the steam pressure as much. Obviously the amount of condensate will be increased significantly, but the boiler may be happier with the load it's supporting if it's getting warm water. :-))) Just a thought.
It is a brand new commercially made smal fire tube gas fired boiler. It will provide enough PSI, but its capacity is very small for engines of these sizes.
I'm curious as to how you fill that gas tank,
Try Googling "Cotswold Heritage Surefill Gas Tank" or you could watch this video that I did, I am sure that the principle must be somewhat similar :-)))) ruclips.net/video/3eFiTrSjDgY/видео.html
Cheers for that Keith !
This may be a completely noob question, but would it be possible to run the pump from the low pressure steam coming off the engine? That is, from the engine exhaust?
Not really, it's possible but a little impractical.
I was going to ask a similar question, but remembering many of your narratives, I decided to Google it. The first response brought me to this. Magic.
Whats the point of the spiraly thing on the boiler?
That is the line that goes from the gas tank to the burner underneath the boiler, and the reason it's curly-qued in such a way is to make a smooth graceful turn to where it connects to the burner to prevent restriction and frictional losses, and also, seeing as the ambient temperature of the atmosphere surrounding the tank and associated plumbing is much warmer than the liquified gas in the tank, plus the radiant heat coming off of the boiler itself, the extra surface area provided by the curly-que in the plumbing will evaporate any still-liquified gas droplets that have made their way into the gas line so the burner will not sputter and gurgle.
Could the hand pump be setup to transfer water from the condenser to the water tank?
(Pulling from the bottom so the oil is not pumped just the water below the oil level. If you added a sight glass to the condenser, you could tell when to stop pumping. )
Thanks for the videos. I love watching them. Am looking forward to more of the "How to build...." series.
Not really practical at these tiny sizes as the water & oil are also emulsified.
The water tank is almost bigger than the boiler...
Yes it is - the boiler is a bit on the small side .....
That is an Ozsteamdemon water tank.