Ok, I have the equipment, I have built a simple pot boiler, Plan on building a simple steam engine. All not too hard. but I haven't seen a good detailed article on building a gas burner to heat the water. Where can such information be found? The articles on using ceramic burners seem to leave out the part about the jet and air mixture chamber and the fuel tank and delivery systems.
Harry Wade wrote: > At 11:29 AM 10/26/01 +0100, you wrote: > >Harry mentioned that "affordable" is a relative term. (big snip) > >I currently have 4 live steamers, > >the most expensive one . . . a $900 boiler and chassis kit. > > To illustrate the alternative . . . . for that amount of money you can > buy a reasonably well tooled Atlas 6" lathe and an 8" Delta Home Depot > drill press & bits, and a few files, and Viola! you're in the live steam > locomotive building business and the loco costs drop from $900 to $50 or > even less for the basic locomotive, depending upon your scrounging > abilities. There isn't a single part of a typical miniature steam > locomotive that cannot be made at home by the amateur, still there will be > some items (screws, fittings, gauges, etc) that are labor and skill > intensive enough that for most of us we're better off buying them out, > unless of course you just want the challenge and satisfaction (or > humiliation!) of making them yourself. But then there we go again paying > someone else to do the machine work. > > >I don't think I have more than $3000 invested in the whole lot. > > If you buy carefully, for that amount of money you can have a South > Bend or Logan 9" or 10" lathe, a small benchtop milling machine, and a > better drill press, and a few accessories for all of them and then who > needs Aster. Of course learning how to use these has to be factored in as > a cost (in time). > > Cheers, > Harry
