Our Home Page photo is of the "FIREFLY" borrowed from Richard Jenkin's Photo Folder. If you have a project under way please consider updating our group on your...
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Jean-Yves Renaud
jeanyves_renaud
Aug 4, 2007 4:30 pm
No Pete, we are not all sleeping. See hereafter a cut and paste of today's report about the Experimental proof (one more !) of the dissymmetry of a propulsion...
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Pete B.
northriver07
Aug 17, 2007 7:37 pm
Welcome Ken Tait Sr. and D.Walker, I would encourage you to look through the"PHOTOS", "FILE" and "LINKS" sections. There's a wealth of information on the...
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Jean-Yves Renaud
jeanyves_renaud
Aug 21, 2007 3:10 pm
Not much activity on the forum. Vacation time? After examination of the data of the best engines I know I thought it could be possible to build a very big...
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Pete B.
northriver07
Aug 23, 2007 1:19 pm
Jean-Yves, THANKS! Interesting stuff. Although I don't have anywhere near the knowledge that you have gained through your research I do appreciate your post....
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Pete B.
northriver07
Aug 29, 2007 12:11 am
Hi Andrew, You wrote: Hi, I am in my 40's father of eleven children and interested in building a full size pop pop boat. well at lest a one man boat. A full...
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Jean-Yves Renaud
jeanyves_renaud
Aug 31, 2007 5:26 pm
Hi Andrew, You are not the first to come with the project to propel a real size boat by a pop-pop (or putt-putt) engine. This is interesting in the principle,...
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Jean-Yves Renaud
jeanyves_renaud
Sep 1, 2007 8:04 am
Andrew, In my previous message I forgot to mention what follows: · The attainable speed is very slow. I have never built (or seen, or read from...
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carlspics
Sep 1, 2007 4:28 pm
Hi, I had heard that several years ago someone made a Pop-Pop engine from the lids of 30 or 55 gallon drums. Supposedly used 8 to 12 one-inch copper pipes. ...
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Pete B.
northriver07
Sep 2, 2007 2:14 am
The Home Page photo shows the 1/2 scale (approx 28 FT) replica of "The Experiment". The Experiment was a steamboat designed and built by James Rumsey in 1787....
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Jean-Yves Renaud
jeanyves_renaud
Sep 2, 2007 7:20 pm
Hi Carl, Thank you for your comments. I would like to know more on the big pop-pop engine you heard about. If you could follow the track and post photos and...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Sep 2, 2007 10:35 pm
Hi, Jean-Yves, Pete, Carl and all, I have also seen something about that elusive boat with a pop-pop boiler made of barrel heads and have searched for it...
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David Halfpenny
tuppenced
Sep 2, 2007 11:52 pm
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Pete B.
northriver07
Sep 3, 2007 12:41 am
Frank, The vortex rings that you mention are similar to the vortex at the end of the wings on aircraft. The addition of winglets minimize the effect of the...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Sep 3, 2007 5:53 am
Hi Pete, Similar maybe, but with opposite effects. Vortices from rigid wings generate drag. Vortices from flapping wings generate lift. Go to...
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David Halfpenny
tuppenced
Sep 3, 2007 9:23 am
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Pete B.
northriver07
Sep 3, 2007 12:26 pm
Hi David & Frank, It's fascinating how Science can contradict itself. In the case of vortices the configuration and dynamics determine whether they are a help...
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carlspics
Sep 3, 2007 1:43 pm
Jean-Yves, I always enjoy your posts. Sounds like you are an engineer and were involved in some interesting projects. I am a chemical engineer and have spent...
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Pete B.
northriver07
Sep 3, 2007 2:26 pm
Hi Carl, Ditto on Jean-Yves.... I'm not sure that this the "Barrel Head" type boiler that you mention. Check with member Dan Noyes. This is his sketch. He may...
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Pete B.
northriver07
Sep 11, 2007 4:32 pm
[:)] I came across this link at the Steamboat.org site. I thought it was interesting and wanted to share with PAtrick Wentzel, Dan Noyes and any other Carousel...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Oct 5, 2007 3:36 pm
Hey Pete, It looks like one of the crew members on the "Experiment" replica is missing. He was leaning over the rail the last time I noticed (seasick perhaps)...
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Xavier LUCAS
allezvasy
Oct 13, 2007 8:03 pm
Hello everybody, As the weather is colder everyday here in southwest Wisconsin, I am thinking about my next winter project. Infact projects as I have to finish...
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Pete B.
northriver07
Oct 14, 2007 11:23 pm
Hi Xavier, We lived in the Northwest Illinois, about 20 miles south of Monroe, WI in Freeport, IL. We moved to Freeport in 1970 and to NY in 1978. We took our...
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Xavier LUCAS
allezvasy
Oct 15, 2007 2:15 pm
Hello Pete, I haven't found the time to taste some ice cream at the university this summer (I know shame on me) but I can tell you that the Zoo is still there...
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Pete B.
northriver07
Oct 15, 2007 11:25 pm
I just rec'd a CD with 20 photos and the research papers of Fred Aeshbacher's model of the 1808 version of Robert Fulton's North River. It's the only model...
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Xavier LUCAS
allezvasy
Oct 16, 2007 2:08 am
Hi guys, I was wondering if some of you which have already built or are in possesion of a pop boat can tell me the weight, size of the boat and the size and...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Oct 16, 2007 7:59 am
Persistence, your real name must be "Pete Baker." Best wishes, Frank...
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Pete B.
northriver07
Oct 16, 2007 9:57 am
Hi Frank, Call it the love of a challenge, research or just plain stubborn! You can meet lots of interesting folks along the way. I have rec'd support from...
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Jean-Yves Renaud
jeanyves_renaud
Oct 16, 2007 7:11 pm
Hi Xavier, Should you need a very big engine, look at eclecticspace.net/doc. There are two (big) videos. With Loïc we have tested two big engines. The first...
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Xavier LUCAS
allezvasy
Oct 17, 2007 12:42 am
Hello Jean Yves, How was your summer ? Not funny report about a trip in the US this summer ? Thanks for your comments, I browse again eclectispace web site...
