It was fun. I got to educate a lot of people too.
Lots of questions were asked and answered.
I was quite busy keeping after it all. I ran it a total of 19 hours over the 3 days and vaporized 115 gallons of water.
I maintained the boiler at mostly 60-85 psi. I learned how to operate the injector which was working great on Saturday and not so co-operative on Sunday which gave my arms plenty of work on the hand pump. I was constantly adding water to the make up water bucket. I fired it with propane and a 210,000 BTU gas burner which worked quite nicely and was capable of more than the 2 engines required together at a slow tick over.
I didn't walk around greeting people and filming the show nearly as much as I used to due to the attention required by this rig. I don't think I got to sit down for more than 20 minutes total over the 3 days.
Each day except the last ended with a 2/3 blow down, clean up and preparation for the next day, with me nearing exhaustion and with my feet sore. It was all quite satisfying!
Gil
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