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2272 frankmcneilll Send Email Jun 1, 2010
2:08 pm
Hi All, I remodeled the home page picture with a cutaway view of an engine with a conical boiler connected to a shroud and a stack. This might be modified by...
2274 darylcanada73 Send Email Jun 4, 2010
7:31 am
Welcome to the forum Kelly, Most hardware stores carry common copper tubing. Thin wall brass tubing is available from many Hobby stores. Hard to advise on size...
2275 i_mad_gination Send Email Jun 4, 2010
11:57 am
Thank you, Daryl. I am making a round vessel that spins to create as many ripples (speed) in the water as possible. I do not need the pop sound in this...
2276 Norman Adrian
qazaqw Send Email
Jun 4, 2010
11:58 am
I our area Home Depot carries copper refrigeration tubing in various diameters and various coil lengths. Otherwise, I would think most hardware stores would...
2277 brian458666@...
brian458666 Send Email
Jun 4, 2010
12:48 pm
Quoting Norman Adrian <njadrian@...>: I've had good service from a place in Fort Wayne called "My Atomic Hobbies". Order online at "myatomic.com". ...
2278 i_mad_gination Send Email Jun 4, 2010
2:43 pm
Thank you very much. I will re-visit Home Depot. (originally thought the tubing had to be a smaller diameter than what they carry - happy to know otherwise)...
2279 i_mad_gination Send Email Jun 4, 2010
2:46 pm
Very nice...thanks Brian!...
2280 brian458666@...
brian458666 Send Email
Jun 4, 2010
7:30 pm
... Depending on your heat source and ambient temperatures, I think that hobby shop tubing with its thin walls might be easier to heat, although easy to ...
2281 i_mad_gination Send Email Jun 4, 2010
8:04 pm
Thank you Brian. I found some brass tubing at Hobby Lobby. On my way to making my first pop pop boat and then a vessel that creates extra ripples!...
2282 darylcanada73 Send Email Jun 5, 2010
7:44 am
If you like you can have a look at two of my videos on Youtube that have the type of rotating vessel you describe. In Part 2-Canadian Putt putt Boats the...
2283 i_mad_gination Send Email Jun 5, 2010
10:30 am
Thank you Daryl - these are fantastic! You are a true inspiration! Kelly...
2284 i_mad_gination Send Email Jun 5, 2010
2:45 pm
Thanks for sharing!...
2285 i_mad_gination Send Email Jun 5, 2010
3:17 pm
Just wondering what you think about my research and if you have any suggestions (agree/disagree - better options) for my first pop pop boat. I'm currently...
2286 frankmcneilll Send Email Jun 5, 2010
4:08 pm
Hi Kelly, Just to do something different since most members seem to post via email rather than by visiting the group at http://tinyurl.com/mfuh9 go to the...
2287 zoomkat Send Email Jun 5, 2010
6:04 pm
Below is a simple spinning setup. I think I've even seen these sold as kits. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PAC6quVdmM...
2288 zoomkat Send Email Jun 5, 2010
6:05 pm
The below micro torch can handle the larger soldering task. Note that it can also overheat stuff too, so caution is advised and heat slowly. Harbor Freight...
2289 i_mad_gination Send Email Jun 6, 2010
11:48 am
Thank you Frank! Great info and insight! Kelly...
2290 i_mad_gination Send Email Jun 6, 2010
11:49 am
This is great -nice clean spinning setup! Thank you Zoomkat! And thank you too for the micro-torch info. :)...
2291 frankmcneilll Send Email Jun 6, 2010
1:03 pm
That video clip of the rotating steam candle seems to have been copied for use on a lot of websites. One of our members found it several years back. It...
2292 frankmcneilll Send Email Jun 6, 2010
2:35 pm
Hi All, Turn up the volume on your computers first- then go to http://tinyurl.com/284lt4k for the answer to this question....
2293 i_mad_gination Send Email Jun 6, 2010
8:53 pm
LOVE THIS! THANKS FRANK!...
2294 frankmcneilll Send Email Jun 11, 2010
10:38 am
Hi All, Go to http://tinyurl.com/yhn7wke for video of an albino finch that acts like it might be s reincarnation of the great film actor Peter Finch. After it...
2295 Pete
northriver07 Send Email
Jun 11, 2010
10:50 am
Mornin' Frank, Daryl et al, Is the finch a true albino or a mutated finch. It's difficult to tell but th eyes look normal as opposed to the pink of a true...
2296 darylcanada73 Send Email Jun 12, 2010
7:30 am
Frank,..........Thanks for the plug. Pete............I'm not a "birder" so can't answer your question. A bird person told me they are still classed as albinos...
2297 frankmcneilll Send Email Jun 12, 2010
11:14 am
Daryl, Your reference to a hawk finding the albino finch suggested the unlikely possibility for an albino hawk noticing an albino finch. I went to Google...
2298 Pete
northriver07 Send Email
Jun 12, 2010
2:18 pm
Hi Daryl, Like Old Frank I hit up Google. There is actually an Albino Finch Society of the domestic kind. ...
2299 frankmcneilll Send Email Jun 12, 2010
3:27 pm
Go to http://tinyurl.com/23qlc6u for this one, courtesy of Pete Baker who found it somewhere and sent it along to me. My own solution to this problem has been...
2300 frankmcneilll Send Email Jun 12, 2010
9:00 pm
Hi All, The Cotronics Corporation seems to have provided a method for using pop-pop engines in boats with vacuum formed thermo plastic hulls. Go to...
2301 Ron Hunt
fomocotrash Send Email
Jun 13, 2010
3:02 am
I think for a small fee they could have had the fire department come in and pump out most of that. The company that made those cups should pay that fee too....
2303 frankmcneilll Send Email Jun 14, 2010
1:01 pm
Hi All, One way might be to build several hundred thousand pop-pop submarines and send them out to suck the oil up and burn it. Does anybody know Tony...
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