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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Videos The Office of Steam Cinema => Topic started by: Nick on December 11, 2019, 10:52:36 pm
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Great video and pictures Nick.
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A great video of your #95G hiding in the steam plume there Nick. I think the Jensen turbine has the most fun factor for the sheer noise alone.
Great video!
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No A/C here, so I guess I only have to deal with half of the problems.
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I don't have my gas prices handy at the moment, but a 1960s model is probably 60% efficient and my new one is 95% efficient. I also have my thermostat lower now. But I spent about $8k*, so how many months/years will that take to pay back?
(*That's for a higher$ unit and fully installed with the AC unit and exhaust moved to a different side of the house. If you are motivated, you could probably cut that bill in half.)
There was a comfort cost (opportunity cost in economics 101?), the old unit wasn't comfortable and LOUD. The air was dry or soggy in the winter (I had to disable the built-in humidifier so itchy scratchy dry) and in the summer when the AC did work, it was very loud and the house would also yo-yo from hot to cold. I dealt with that old crappy system for 9 years.
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House looked kind of neat while filming this morning with the sun rising on the other side... I guess neat until you think of it as money going out the chimney :D
Nick, with a high-efficiency furnace did you know you get water out of the gas used in the furnace.
I did not, my furnace is far from high-efficiency, looks to be a 1960's model
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House looked kind of neat while filming this morning with the sun rising on the other side... I guess neat until you think of it as money going out the chimney :D
Nick, with a high-efficiency furnace did you know you get water out of the gas used in the furnace.
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I have been tempted to go with a new furnace, but I've known too many people that have had nothing but problems with the computer boards for their furnace. Two guys I know both bought new setups and the company kept replacing their boards till the warranty was up... they never got it right and now their stuck with bad furnaces...
I'm getting the house re-roofed in the spring from hail damage and he asked if I'm going to be putting a new furnace in any time soon for that reason. I am removing the brick chimney because it's crumbling away and the previous owner put steel around it that bleeds rust all down my roof.
Just curious @CBWho what does your gas bill run in the winter time? I keep the house set at 62 and it runs about $130/month, maybe $160-180 in January-February when we have the long periods of cold. I can sell firewood at $300/cord ($100 pickup load), so not worth burning it myself...
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At my house, the 1980s HVAC died a year ago (the AC blew out and the humidifier was already broken and the heater was on its last legs), so I cracked open my wallet and got a new system that doesn't use a chimney. It goes out the side of the house.
Oh my, it made a HUGE difference. Before the house temperature was a wobbly yo-yo. Consequently, we had the heat higher. And you could see tons of heat blow out the chimney. Also our gas bill was many times higher than my neighbors. (The gas company said so on our bill. They were astonished!) Now with the new system, our temp setting is much lower and gas bill is much better and the house has even constant heat. But alas, it's expensive to replace.
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Nick,
What do you heat your house with? Wood? Those old chimneys require a lot of draft which wastes heat.
Gas, my furnace exhaust runs up through the old chimney. There is a wood-stove in the basement, but I sell all of my firewood. When buying the house I could not get American Family to insure it without agreeing to not burn wood.
I run my engines in the cold as well. I find that I need to richen the alcohol (more towards 95% than 75%) but I don't have problems with icing.
I have issues with traction
Admittedly, today was around 10F so not as cold...
The best way is to raise steam in the house and carry them outside quickly. I also have issues with traction, likely because the engines are warm and I carry them outside, so the snow melts and quickly re-freezes to the wheels. I have tried WD-40 and cooking spray with not much luck...
Yes, we are back in a heat wave as of last night :D
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Nick,
I love the steamy pictures and video. Admittedly I had to mute it, that pitch hurts my ears unfortunately. But the turbine is purrty.
What do you heat your house with? Wood? Those old chimneys require a lot of draft which wastes heat. (They actually knew that in 1924, I bought a reprint of an old steam engine textbook. Very interesting.)
I run my engines in the cold as well. I find that I need to richen the alcohol (more towards 95% than 75%) but I don't have problems with icing.
I have issues with traction: https://youtu.be/-xF_oIRHeUQ
Admittedly, today was around 10F so not as cold...
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That's great Nick - surprised everything isn't coated in ice after a run.
I moved the engine to the right a little bit so you can see the frost on the towel
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a little bit of ice on the base
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Frosty lamp post
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Gave this Southern Boy chills just watching!
I enjoyed the video and I admire your heartiness doing this outside at -5F.
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Really enjoyed that !!!
It was a great show Nick...and some mighty fine pictures as well.
The cold clearly reveals how massive that leak is from the steamvalve, and it would appear that the whistle would like a bit of lapping as well.
Otherwise a great looking and very well running plant you´ve got there.
Thanks for sharing (https://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji482.png)
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That's great Nick - surprised everything isn't coated in ice after a run.
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pretty neat Nick .
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Most enjoyable Nick, when did the snow start where you are?
Roy
Thanks Roy, we had snow about a month ago.
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Most enjoyable Nick, when did the snow start where you are?
Roy
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House looked kind of neat while filming this morning with the sun rising on the other side... I guess neat until you think of it as money going out the chimney :D
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49207379197_be475cf78a_b.jpg)
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Now that is definitely WAY COOL Nick .... Both literally and figuratively!
Might I recommend that you get yourself some gloves for steaming in such conditions !?!?!
Well, that would just take all the fun out of cold weather steaming ;) :D
(I had gloves in my pocket, but too hard to run the camera...)
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Now that is definitely WAY COOL Nick .... Both literally and figuratively!
Might I recommend that you get yourself some gloves for steaming in such conditions !?!?!
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Somewhere around -4°F to -6°F. Didn't realize the steam covered the engine completely in some of the shots, but my hands were too cold for a re-shoot :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIQpFFAlzTQ