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I bought a steam engine
vtsteam:
Yes John, let's hope Mr. Murphy's law won't apply when it arrives, though my expectations are set to handle that anyway. Fixing stuff is second nature, and I can even cast iron here.
Yes, I had definitely thought about CLP some day. Waste heat is very useful here in Vermont 8 months of the year. I already have baseboard hot water heat set up, and a buried hot water supply and return line from the house to the shed (currently unused) from earlier wood chip furnace experiments.
In addition, our greatest electricity consumption now is for a hot water heater. If that were heated with an exchanger by way of a condenser after the steam engine -- I'd be killing a three birds with one stone.
Meldonmech:
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Hi Steve
What amazing potential, are you setting yourself a target for complete installation?
Good Luck
Cheers David
vtsteam:
Hi David, no, sorry to say -- as always with steam, the boiler and auxiliary lubricators, feed pumps etc. are a lot more difficult to source (and pay for) than the engine itself. So that's all a "some day" dream.
On the other hand, taking the engine apart and cleaning it up, fixing things, shining, painting, etc costs next to nothing, so that's what I look forward to doing. As well as hooking up an air line for fun, assuming my compressor has the guts to turn it over....
tom osselton:
Nice engine I'll be looking forward to your project!
vtsteam:
Thanks Tom!
Well it's taken nearly 2 weeks but it (they) finally arrived today. Actually it's two engines one "runner" and one "parts" engine. The second block was originally going to be retained by the seller to cut down on shipping weight, but instead he just packed it aboard the shipping pallet, a nice surprise!
I didn't get them off my truck by this evening, and I left the wrap on because it's supposed to snow, but here are a few photos of what I received.
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