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Re: Boiler feedwater from the lake?
« Reply #25 on: December 30, 2009, 06:43:15 pm »
Understood, but the instructions that tell all your customers how to operate a plant safely and will be sent out with every engine is NOT the place to make mistakes!
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Re: Boiler feedwater from the lake?
« Reply #26 on: December 30, 2009, 06:52:59 pm »
I just looked a set of operating instructions that I have from a Cheddar steam plant and the instructions read: "It is recommended that purified, distilled or carefully filtered rain water is used."

My guess is that it was a typographical error that was caught later after a number of instructions where sent out. Nobody is perfect I guess. They still where the "end all be all" of steam in my book. I still tip my hat to them.

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Re: Boiler feedwater from the lake?
« Reply #27 on: December 30, 2009, 06:58:38 pm »
Oops, I just noticed that along with the instructions that read to use distilled water as I just posted, there was a separate sheet of instructions included just like the one Peter has posted recommending the use of de-ionized water. That's weird. 
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Re: Boiler feedwater from the lake?
« Reply #28 on: December 30, 2009, 07:04:24 pm »
Yes your both right, but imagine your car manual telling you your brake pedal is the accelerator- doesn't matter if it's a typo. a mistake or whatever, those instructions are what tells the user how to use whatever he/she has bought and it's the responsibility of the manufacturer to make sure everything he has said is 100% correct- i'm not knocking his engineering, and boy do I know what it's like to make mistakes in engineering! - but I can't forgive instructions been wrong- it's ink- it should be written, read, re-read, checked by at least another 5 people who know what they're talking about and any mistakes corrected and re-write them there is no excuse in my book, sorry.

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Re: Boiler feedwater from the lake?
« Reply #29 on: December 30, 2009, 07:08:18 pm »
I completely agree.

As far as your car manual telling you your brake pedal is the accelerator, I think I've seen a number of drivers who obviously got that version of the manual.  ;D  O0 :}
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Re: Boiler feedwater from the lake?
« Reply #30 on: December 30, 2009, 09:04:44 pm »
You have them over there too....they're everywhere!!! %%

Mind been in American cars they only go fast on the straights.... %)

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Re: Boiler feedwater from the lake?
« Reply #31 on: December 30, 2009, 09:27:40 pm »
Quote from: gondolier88 on December 30, 2009, 09:04:44 pm
You have them over there too....they're everywhere!!! %%

Mind been in American cars they only go fast on the straights.... %)

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Haha, It's an international phenomenon.  %)

The cars I designed and built professionally went fast through the corners also. O0  The last vintage road race car that I built fro myself was a 1963 Ford Sprint Hard top. It had all the trimmings, tube chassis and roll cage, hand made suspension components but the scary part was it had a twin turbo small block v8 which produced a little over 1000 horse power. The car was scary fast and light weight. Wish I still had it but the Misses doesn't.  {-)

 
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Re: Boiler feedwater from the lake?
« Reply #32 on: December 30, 2009, 09:35:07 pm »
VERY nice! Was that the OE engine????? You should get hold of one of our TVR's from over here and tune it up.....
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Re: Boiler feedwater from the lake?
« Reply #33 on: December 30, 2009, 09:41:43 pm »
Quote from: MONAHAN STEAM MODELS on December 30, 2009, 09:27:40 pm
Haha, It's an international phenomenon.  %)

The cars I designed and built professionally went fast through the corners also. O0  The last vintage road race car that I built fro myself was a 1963 Ford Sprint Hard top. It had all the trimmings, tube chassis and roll cage, hand made suspension components but the scary part was it had a twin turbo small block v8 which produced a little over 1000 horse power. The car was scary fast and light weight. Wish I still had it but the Misses doesn't.  {-)

 

Banked corners don't count, you just have to keep your boot on the gas and let the car do all the work.







That's the blue touch paper alight and 5..4...3...2......

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Re: Boiler feedwater from the lake?
« Reply #34 on: December 30, 2009, 09:50:53 pm »
Yeah, I never cared for banked corners or roundy round tracks . I was more of quiet deserted twisty country road fan myself where most of the steering was done with the gas pedal and rear brakes.  %)

Greg,

The engine was definitely not OEM. In fact I don't think a single bolt was. The original engine was offered in those cars was either a cast iron straight six (which produce 65 H.P.) or cast iron V8. The cylinder block I used was an after market Aluminum one.
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Re: Boiler feedwater from the lake?
« Reply #35 on: December 30, 2009, 09:56:03 pm »
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twisty country road fan myself where most of the steering was done with the gas pedal and rear brakes

Ahh a man after my own heart  :-))

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