Subject:
|
Re: Boilers
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates
|
Date:
|
Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:47:58 GMT
|
Reply-To:
|
LPIENIAZEK@ihatespamNOVERA.COM
|
Viewed:
|
55 times
|
| |
|
|
James is right, but I still like the way they look. L, you're right,
those star wars elements even kind of look like a grate looking into the
firebox. I could see using these boilers inside a small machine shed in
an older factory.
The problem with selective compression is that some things get
compressed in several dimensions which really messes them up.
--
Larry Pieniazek - larryp@novera.com - http://my.voyager.net/lar
http://www.mercator.com. Mercator, the e-business transformation company
fund Lugnet(tm): http://www.ebates.com/ ref: lar, 1/2 $$ to lugnet.
Note: this is a family forum!
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Boilers
|
| (...) Oh, I would say they look _great_ as far as a small boiler goes...in fact, they look a lot like a boiler I may get the chance to help retube at school...but it supplies steam to a 15 BHP engine...so not all that much power...and our steam car (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Boilers
|
| (...) Lets put it this way, if they are that selectivly compressed, each one is about big enough to power a boat 2x the size of a rowboat! They would be in real life MASSIVE structures, on the order of 15' across each, and the same high. Small ones (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
|
14 Messages in This Thread:
  
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
