Model Boat Mayhem
The Shipyard ( Dry Dock ): Builds & Questions => Steam => Topic started by: Philipsparker on July 29, 2008, 03:49:23 pm
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I've started building a Midwest Models Fantail launch kit - bought on a whim from Oxford Models.
Description and photos at:
http://philsworkbench.blogspot.com/search/label/Fantail%20launch
Phil
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I've done it. And the rest looks pretty good to me:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2800335462_789c1b87d4_o.jpg)
Pleased Phil
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Me too! O0
Has she had her maiden voyage yet?
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Boy that thin looks great O0, you did a real nice job on it. O0 I read your blog and you said that you could not get Sterno over there, you might want to check with a local food caterer as it is used as the heat source under warming trays to keep the water hot. In this country when they have a banquet away from a normal restaurant say in someones back yard the caterers would set serving trays on tables with cans of Sterno underneath to heat the water in the serving tray. Sterno is a pink jelly like fuel substance and we can get in several sizes from a little 4 or 5 oz can to a 5 gallon bucket depending on your needs.
On a note for your steam engine, boil your water first at home so you don't have to use as much fuel to get up to a working pressure. I have a Live steam railroad locomotive and before I go out to run I will boil distilled water and put in my thermos boiling hot. It will not be at a boil when I put it in the locomotive but will still be in the 180 plus degree range and does not take very long or very much fuel to get up to a full steam that way.
Andre