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PostPosted: 21:17 - 04 Oct 2018    Post subject: Steam Reply with quote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx9Q8PphAVo
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PostPosted: 22:59 - 04 Oct 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Where's the electric start?

Hm. Not sure what the fuel is, looks rather slack, not best Welsh dry steam coal.
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PostPosted: 12:16 - 05 Oct 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Riejufixing wrote:
Where's the electric start?

Hm. Not sure what the fuel is, looks rather slack, not best Welsh dry steam coal.


Easier to start an Airbus 320.
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PostPosted: 20:22 - 06 Oct 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

My Dad was a fireman with Great Western Railways. Thumbs Up Steam trains are still cool now and they must have been astounding in their heyday. There is something animal-esque about them. No pushing a switch to go, as the video testifies. Having said that I believe they were never left to go cold but were always tended.
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PostPosted: 20:52 - 06 Oct 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think, having to rake out the box, carry the kindling, break it all up, stuff it all through that stupid wee door, burn your hands lighting it using a paraffin rag, shovelling in coal, cleaning up all the dust and shite, getting burned by almost everything you touch, getting choked by the fumes, deafened by the noise, soaked by the rain and things of that nature, would maybe loose some of its charm after a few shifts on the footplate. 😂

A steam truck needs the same amount of 'love to get it going too.
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PostPosted: 21:04 - 06 Oct 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

There again, while you're rocketing through England's green and pleasant on a gigantic, fiery, visceral machine you'd be cooking eggs and bacon on a spade. Come on! Did it ever get any better?
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PostPosted: 06:09 - 07 Oct 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kawasaki Jimbo wrote:
There again, while you're rocketing through England's green and pleasant on a gigantic, fiery, visceral machine you'd be cooking eggs and bacon on a spade. Come on! Did it ever get any better?


Of course, 'The Devil is in the Detail'.

(Did you plagiarize that from last issue of 'Steam Monthly? 🤣)

An interesting point is when lay folk seem to suggest that efficiency is some sort of modern engineering when man has always strived to make shit better/more powerful/more bang for his/her buck.
Steam was maybe the thing that illustrates the trend that we see now-a-days in our modern motor vehicle.

I bet there were as many flounces from those steam circles as there have been from BCF 'Forum-ing the Future of Chat'.
Don't let the tender's door slam on your way off the locomotive. 😆

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I like 2 of Tesco's Pork Chipolata with 3 slice Ayrshire back and 2 eggs over-eezy, thanks.

Can you fit them on yer shovel Big Yin?

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PostPosted: 08:41 - 07 Oct 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like a good steam engine, I run this a couple of times a week:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/1903_Burnley_Ironworks_Corliss_mill_engine_in_the_Science_Museum.jpg

It doesn't make Choo Choo noises, but it does make a good puff of steam whilst running!
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PostPosted: 08:45 - 07 Oct 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

I laugh at people who call steam old and out-dated. I remind them that a whole chunk of their electricity is generated using steam..

The efficiency, power and cost thing was evident way back at the Rainhill Trials where Stephenson showed his rocket (oo err missus) to the world.
Those early engineers must have been onto something considering we still use pistons in cylinders (mostly).

No I'm not a steam fanatic. Far from it - that lot annoy me.
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PostPosted: 12:43 - 07 Oct 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

I always wonder what could be achieved now with a steam train.
Horizontal tubed boilers are still in use in so many industrial plants that there must have been a huge amount of progress on design. Not to mention the power the cylinders could produce with modern materials and the instrumentation that could be installed.
The world record is still 126mph. I bet 150mph would be easy.
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PostPosted: 13:56 - 07 Oct 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

c_dug wrote:
I like a good steam engine, I run this a couple of times a week:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/1903_Burnley_Ironworks_Corliss_mill_engine_in_the_Science_Museum.jpg

It doesn't make Choo Choo noises, but it does make a good puff of steam whilst running!


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PostPosted: 14:32 - 07 Oct 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's a very good steam engine at Astley Green, which was in use from 1912 to 1970.
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PostPosted: 14:57 - 07 Oct 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YslEmZeuALA

Phap phap phap..
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