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Harry Peterson Boiler
Installation of a Harry Peterson boiler in a Stanley. In the 1950’s and 1960’s before Stanley cars became valuable and then people started making good quality replica Stanley boilers and burners using the authentic original designs there were very few … Continue reading
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Steam Photos
This is a portable steam engine at the Willits Steam Museum in Northern California. You can tell that it is not a traction engine because the rear wheels do not have lugs on them and there is no steering mechanism. … Continue reading
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Doble Auxiliary V-2 Engine
This is a Doble auxiliary engine designed for F-31 that was not used for such. It is double acting compound piston valve. HP is 1.531 inches, LP 2.575 inches and stroke is 2.00 inches. Engine has ball-bearing mains. Valve … Continue reading
Names of the Parts of a Simple Steam Engine
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100hp Doble Two-Cylinder Double-Acting Compound Engine
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Heat Soaking
After a person has burned out a few superheater sections of a monotube boiler everyone, without exception, will stop by and say “all you needed to do was to let it heat soak; everyone knows that”. What they do not … Continue reading
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Steam Power Systems Bus
There were three California Clean bus projects that became operable in 1972: SPS, Brobeck, and Lear. The three developers were given about two years to design, build, test, and put into regular bus operation, a steam powered bus. The purpose … Continue reading
Infinergy Power
There is a steam power plant over in England that is getting money and winning awards. It is fun to read how they do it. There are heat pipes, as in: “The combustion and flue heat recovery modules consist of … Continue reading
Lear Vapordyne steam car.
First of all to tell the story of this car would take a book along with some serious research. What more or less happened is as follows. It all started at Indianapolis where in May 1967 the STP gas turbine … Continue reading
