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Nick

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Re: Serious Boiler
« Reply #30 on: December 05, 2019, 10:17:18 pm »
I cannot believe that is the same boiler  8)
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Re: Serious Boiler
« Reply #31 on: December 06, 2019, 06:09:29 am »
Bob, I am with Nick on this. Hard to believe it's the same boiler.
You've done an outstanding job of bringing it back from the brink!


Fully functional and looks great, too!


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Re: Serious Boiler
« Reply #32 on: March 11, 2020, 01:45:45 pm »
Hey Bob.

Checking to see if you had steamed up the boiler yet.

I was wondering how it performed.

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Re: Serious Boiler
« Reply #33 on: March 11, 2020, 03:25:04 pm »
Not yet, Charlie. Still have snow on the ground here, with daily temperatures just above freezing.

Soon, though.
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Re: Serious Boiler
« Reply #34 on: March 11, 2020, 04:00:18 pm »
Not yet, Charlie. Still have snow on the ground here, with daily temperatures just above freezing.

Soon, though.

Spring has come to Dallas.

It is 80F/26C here today.

Hopefully, you can fire it up when it warms up there.

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Re: Serious Boiler
« Reply #35 on: March 11, 2020, 04:16:57 pm »
I thought spring was here too, but we had nearly an inch of snow overnight ;)
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Re: Serious Boiler
« Reply #36 on: May 07, 2020, 08:07:48 am »
Hey Bob, wake-up, spring is here. It's time to stop hibernating and time to start steaming, like that Very Serious Boiler Bob.
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Re: Serious Boiler
« Reply #37 on: May 07, 2020, 08:46:57 am »
My very thought first thing this morning!

You must be psychic, or psychotic, or whatever it is.

Still gardening, etc, and have to service the lawn tractors today, but I plan to try for tomorrow.
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Re: Serious Boiler
« Reply #38 on: May 08, 2020, 01:23:19 pm »
Yikes! It's about 40 Fahrenheit out there, and looking similar for the next little while.

I'll have to wait a bit.
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« Reply #39 on: May 08, 2020, 09:09:07 pm »
Yikes! It's about 40 Fahrenheit out there, and looking similar for the next little while.

I'll have to wait a bit.

Summer came and went here too! Good thing I didn't get carried away in the garden yet.
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Re: Serious Boiler
« Reply #40 on: May 24, 2020, 02:55:47 am »
Summer's back, and with a vengeance at 30 degrees Celsius, and here's the Serious Boiler in operation at last.

I know, I know, the video is awful (read the YouTube video [ Guests cannot view attachments ] description), but at least the boiler works fine.



The burner, on the other hand needs re-thinking, as, aside from being cobbled together just to get the boiler going, it's a bit too small for the job and keeps going out if I insert it into the flue.

In fact, pretty well everything was cobbled together just so I could make the miserable video. I didn't even connect the hand feed pump, as I didn't intend to run it all for very long.

I have yet to work out a permanent mounting and piping arrangement so that I can use the boiler as a steam source for different engines.

It was worth all the work, though, at least to me.
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Re: Serious Boiler
« Reply #41 on: May 24, 2020, 09:51:28 am »
Nice to see you putting that boiler to work...!!!


And... as I may have said before, it looks fantastic. Engine looks great, too!



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Re: Serious Boiler
« Reply #42 on: May 24, 2020, 10:24:42 am »
Nice to see you putting that boiler to work...!!!

That "work" thing is interesting.

As I was running the engine, the farmer who rents my pasture came along, looked at it, and said, "But what are you going to do with it?"

My reply: "I AM  doing it!"

The farmer was not impressed....
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Re: Serious Boiler
« Reply #43 on: May 24, 2020, 12:41:30 pm »
Nice to see you putting that boiler to work...!!!

That "work" thing is interesting.

As I was running the engine, the farmer who rents my pasture came along, looked at it, and said, "But what are you going to do with it?"

My reply: "I AM  doing it!"

The farmer was not impressed....



I know how that goes all to well  :D

I will say that I am impressed  ;)
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Re: Serious Boiler
« Reply #44 on: May 24, 2020, 01:54:36 pm »
Looks a lot better than than what you started with
Well done

Cheers
Dennis