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The Regular Stuff: Chat, Buy, Sell, Off Topic, etc. => General Discussion - Model & Toy Steam Engines – Stirling Cycle – Flame Lickers – Small Antique Originals => Topic started by: Jim on September 19, 2024, 08:10:24 pm
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To the extreme!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9tMjCwP-yI
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These clinker built boats (carvel built was fairly rare in my neck of the woods) weren't built as 'forever boats' they were hard working boats that came with a holiday house or could be rented out at the boatshed in tourist season. They were built in a very small lakeside boat shed that was near me (long gone and now just foreshore). Its virtually impossible to stop a wooden boat from eventually developing rot somewhere. Clinker boats needed to be kept in the water to remain water tight. It was a big job for someone to bail them out throughout a high rainfall night (maybe get out of bed multiple times to do it) so that the engines didn't go under water. Lots of folks tried fibreglassing the outside of boats which made them heavy and not as elegant motoring, but it backfired on them because it amplified rot.
As soon as aluminium boats came on the scene (first ones weren't welded they were riveted) these beautiful old boat were left to rot on the banks and foreshores.
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Hi Jim, Nice looking putt putt boat and engine you have there!
I imagine it is very relaxing to putt around the lake in it.
As for the steam boat toy, It looks to me like the steam heats the shrink tube until it is fully constricted. This is followed by build up of vapor pressure until it forces the shrink tube open which gives a quick and short boil and a blast of steam. In my estimation it is not a very good propulsion system yet still fun to play with and good for amusement.
Thanks for sharing it here!
Gil
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Ooooooh .... that is (was) a real beauty!
Maintenance be damned, it would still be worth having! Heck, you could even put a steam engine in that fair craft!!!
I have a wooden canoe that I've probably put most of ten thousand miles under the keel in half a dozen States and three Countries, but haven't had it out on the water for several years now, though I do still have it ...... and yes, it does need some maintenance now that you mention it!?!? ;c)
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Never had a toy pop pop boat (but will buy one).
This is my Putt Putt boat (clinker built) with a Blaxland Chapman inboard motor (start with a leather belt) that I completely rebuilt and made many parts for out the front of my home on our private mooring poles that I did up in the ’80s (now long gone) these were really common inboard motor timber boats when I was a boy, but when aluminium boats became common these were quickly abandoned because of the amount of maintenace. But they were just great to fish out of and had a lot more ‘soul’ than boats I’ve had moored out the front since that.
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Cheap Chinese Temu Steam Boat
https://youtu.be/RD1ylwiLR2A