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I don't know anything about snobs, but it seems more about narrow vs standard gauge. (The only two Asters I own are narrow gauge butane fired.) Why should only the standard gauge guys be allowed to imbibe???

I'm working on a project to change that stereotype. The burner pictured below is destined to be placed between the frames of my Accucraft C-16 Bumblebee. I have given thought about posting some progress reports on this website, but I'd probably be trying to extinguish flames of a different type. (oooh, they never used that livery in day to day service or oooh, you might kill somebody with that cobbled together hack job of ticking time bomb style boiler). I'm leaning more towards posting the progress, 'cause I have a fairly thick skin after spending 20 years in Uncle Sam's canoe club (I'll probably get flamed for calling the U.S. Navy a canoe club!

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Anyhow, who want's to see an Accucraft C-16 alcohol conversion???? Here's the burner (notice, it's on fire, stand back from the flame) :

Oh, by the way, yes those are .44 Mag cases....

 

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Posted By David Leech on 04 Feb 2010 11:28 AM
So Dave,
Are you building a new boiler, or modifying the existing one by making it into a type 'C', or WHAT.
I doubt that it will work as a pot boiler, will it?
All the best,
David Leech, Delta, Canada

With the valve gear / eccentrics there's not much room for a proper pot boiler burner, and one of my reasons for attempting this conversion was the added complexity of the blower / blast pipe. My ultimate goal is coal but the C-16 would have an extremely small grate area if I attempted to build a true wet walled firebox. So to answer your question, I'm building a JvR "C" type boiler from scratch.

 

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Ok, so it looks like I got four votes for sharing the progress of the Alky conversion, so I'll probably do something along the lines of Larry "Redbeard" Newman's coverage of his Ruby-Heisler build.

On a different note, I have a Regner engine that has individually built up leaf springs. Does that make me a Regner Snob??

 

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Posted By Steve Shyvers on 05 Feb 2010 07:51 AM
Five votes. I converted a Roundhouse Billy to alcohol firing a couple of years ago. I used the stock boiler and added a firebox to the back end to make a "C-type" boiler. I used two 1/2" dia. wicks, and I added baffling to the single flue to slow down exhaust gas flow. Most of the hard work was in the smokebox to make it air tight and to figure out the blast pipe arrangement.

Steve


Steve, your articles were my inspiration to get off my butt. And it is looking like the blast pipe will be somewhat difficult because of "converting" what is already there for exhaust connections. (3MM threaded outlet and I want a .080" orifice @ 36mm below my lower stack openeing.)

But I'm getting ahead of myself! Also one of my goals is to not do anything that is not reversable should I fail. The chicken feed fuel tank will require me to cut a hole in the bottom of the tender, so that's not happening until if and when the boiler works well. (I plan on making a simple tender with the proper sump size from a plastic Hartland flatcar.)


Anyhow, I better save some information for my own thread.

 

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Posted By Steve S. on 05 Feb 2010 09:30 PM
Posted By seadawg on 05 Feb 2010 06:55 AM


On a different note, I have a Regner engine that has individually built up leaf springs. Does that make me a Regner Snob??





You bet it does! But I bet you don't have a secret handshake.




Nope, got our own language - Deutsch!

(Just kidding, I speak way more Japanese than German.)