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CrewCab:
Klank,
Thanks for a great write up of a cracking build :thumbup:
CC
Andy:
Thanks for that Klank. :clap: I like the life that steam and boilers bring to an engine. Have made a couple similar to yours in the past (sadly now sold and no photos), guided by the same Tubal Cain (Tom Walshaw) books. However, a vertical one is planned, but don't hold your breath. I've had the copper tube sat here for about three years already.
I know where you are coming from with the gas firing, but don't you miss the smell of meths? Brings back happy 1960s Mamod memories for me.
klank:
Darren, CC, Andy - thankyou all, gentle men for the kind comments.
I am a bit thick here, but what U-tube video do you refer to Darren? I will certainly look it up.
Andy - yup, I rather got too much of the Meths smell when I "experimented" with a triple wick burner before being given my gas system. I did prove it could be an uncontrollable conflagration.
I could not find suitable wicking in our local ironmongers (yes it does use that name even today) so thought to try making "wicks" from porous Thermalite block slugs, set into brass holders, joined by a bottom pipe with a top cut slightly under each burner. I tried it out with a drip feed to the pipe and the smell became overpowering (holes in the pipe too big perhaps). I then noticed my right sleeve was getting very warm (an open meths flame is hard to see in bright light) - then it all got too exciting for words.
The porous plugs, holders, pipe etc. are now useful landfill.
I never had a Mamod in those days of long grey shorts and scabby knees - but I do remember the smell of a Mills engine running on Diesel fuel (getting off topic here) - showing our age - but happy days!
bogstandard:
Just for those that have trouble obtaining suitable wicking material.
If you go into your local DIY outlet and see if they sell those garden spirit lamps that you stick in the ground, they look like a length of bamboo with a glass bottle on the top.
You should be able to buy the spare wicks for those items, and the ones we have here are made of fibre glass 'string'. I have used it for all sorts of meths burners, including my flame licker. It lasts forever, once the glass ends have melted and fused, it just doesn't seem to get any shorter.
Very nice build BTW Klank.
Bogs
Andy:
I had a look for Tubal Cain videos on YouTube. There are quite a few but they seem to have nothing to do with the Tubal Cain that most of us will know (at least in the UK). This was Tom Walshaw, who died a good while ago.
The guy who has done the videos that I saw sounds like an American and appears to have assumed the name.
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