These were /are used , in inumerable variants from waaaaay back ie at least the early 1900s. The Aster BR86 uses an alcohol fueled one, a soft flame one, based on a turn of the century Basset Lowke design. The one I have in a B/L loco of 1905 is essentially identical. These are used in essentially pot boilers as they tend to allow the flame to lift off and extinguish in a forced draft boiler. The late "LBSC" described a number of kerosene (Paraffin UK) fueled ones of a number of designs, most of which were more usitable for the forced draft loco type boilers.
Jim Gregg.
At 06:19 PM 4/16/04 -0500, you wrote:
So has anyone played around with vaporizing burners in our size? I read a nice article about building them for 2.5" gauge and the construction methods looked scalable but not having an alchy-burner yet I haven't experimented any.
Has anyone?
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