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Outboard Steam engine motor
on Fri, 26 Oct 2018 20:54:20 -0700 (PDT) typed
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On Friday, March 11, 2016 at 9:26:26 AM UTC-7, wrote:
If you could plumb steam to the engine you might be able to do this, but
there's likely no way to put reasomable power in an outboard engine with
the boiler requirements.
There have been a number of successful designs that have accomplished this goal. You won't get 150hp out of it, but certainly enough power to move a small skiff at a decent speed- 8hp or so. Traditional boiler designs are too heavy, but the Serpollet monotube works quite well. Check out Wally Mounster and Terry William's designs.
You are exactly right, Chas. Thanks for mentioning my steam outboard. I ran it for a number of years beginning in 1989, and accumulated over 1500 hours on it. It now sits on my patio in need of a little TLC
Terry Williams
Somewhere around here, I've the plans for a Steam Powered Model
Aeroplane from ~1908.
Not sure it would scale up, though.
tschus
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