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steam power

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 6:43 pm
by moggiethouable
A neat way to generate electricity[frame]Image[/frame]

Re: steam power

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 10:53 am
by mike.perry
"Hello this is my first posting. I have just finished at college and have bought several large boxes which I am told contain all the necessary parts to rebuild a traction engine. I have never rebuilt anything so I am looking for advice on which box to open first"

Re: steam power

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 12:20 pm
by moggiethouable
I hope thats a model traction engine :D
Which box to open first?...................There is a theoretical link here to Schroedingers cat theory, as long as the boxes remain closed the traction engine exists, if you open the box and nothing appears...............?
I would open the heaviest box, that is sure to contain the most interesting component parts.

Re: steam power

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:20 pm
by MarkyB
The box you keep your money in?

Re: steam power

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 8:14 pm
by mike.perry
Thankyou for your advice, I have opened the box and found some lumps of black rock and a bucket of water

Re: steam power

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 10:43 pm
by irmscher
There is an actual steam powered Minor :o i think its on youtube it was for sale last year

Re: steam power

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 10:23 am
by mike.perry
What is the law about wearing seat belts whilst stoking the boiler at 40 mph in a steam powered Morris Minor???????????

Re: steam power

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 2:27 pm
by ASL642
You must wear gloves! :lol:

Re: steam power

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:41 pm
by Matt
Thats a nice showmans engine

Prestons of Potto seem to be doing the haulage of gantry sections for the roadworks on the M1 at the moment

Re: steam power

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 1:36 am
by IaininTenbury
irmscher wrote:There is an actual steam powered Minor :o i think its on youtube it was for sale last year
Oh eck, missed it again. I wanted this so much when it appeared at an auction in Cambridgeshire, ooh, probably about ten years back now and circumstances weren't right then (skint and already too many cars). I'm assuming its the same one a blue pickup with the A series engine block used as the basis for the steam engine and an oil fueled boiler in the back...
Surely there isn't more of them.... :o

Re: steam power

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:54 am
by irmscher
It was the same one Iain i think its on youtube or maybe google it .