This site is for info to be exchange for steamboats. You can leave a written message or go to live chat on the left to see if anyone is in the chat room....
This site is for info to be exchange for steamboats. You can leave a written message or go to live chat on the left to see if anyone is in the chat room....
This is the beginning of a steamboat project in N.J. that will be updated as the boat go through stages of construction. All comments are welcome.<br>See...
There will be a steamboat meet in nj this feb 11. Its call a cabin fever brakeout. It will in south orange NJ from 9am until 5pm.It will be a swap, sell, buy...
This is a 18sqft yarrow boiler. The photos are in order of assy.The copper was cut,bent then machined. After that it was cleaned then fluxed and assy. to be...
Good morning/afternoon, <br>My name is John Morrison and I live an hour north of Victoria BC Canada in a town called Mill Bay. My wife and I have been ...
John, Glade to see that you joined the club I'll try to answer all your questions as best as I can.<br> 1. How fast do you want to go. 5-8 kts ?<br> 2. How...
John, If you can go to the chat room to the left then click on chat, I will meet you there tonight friday around 9:30 pm EST. If that's ok with you. Then we...
Lets pick a day and time so we can all meet in<br>the chat room and talk about steaming.All post <br>responce message on what is the best time<br> and...
I just stumbled on to this club while checking the live steam board at Chaski. I'm one of two volunteer captains of the 1904 steam yacht Medea at the San Diego...
Jake -<br>Saw the pictures of the boiler test, neat! The close up of the gauge kinda looks like you cracked the Bezel with extreme pressure.<br><br>BTW, Last ...
Looking at your photos of your boiler,it seems as if your 6" dia. tube for the drum has a 6" disc silver soldered in for an end plate. In the UK it would be...
David, The boiler does have a 6" end plates.The end plates are 1/4" copper which has the surface area to silver solder to. Also there are 13 stay rods.This is...
Jake, Yes, fine, there is a bit of a scare on over here. Some clown is trying to say that copper is no good for boilers. Obviously copper has been used here,...
David, Many boilers in the U.S. are built of copper a lot are as big as 40 sqft. with no problems. I used oxy-propane gas it was cheaper then acetylene. I did...
David, The part that I had to solder was always in the middle of the box. The flame was never near the side of the box. A few times I had the cardboard smoking...
Jake, I am also building a new boiler,a Bolsover Express. When I get the photos out of the camera,I'll post them.<br> A greater problem is, if there are...
David,There are a few steam news groups that I go to and post messages about steamboating, but the groups are mostly steam trains. The problem that I come ...
