15 Jun
2015
15 Jun
'15
1:59 p.m.
On Jun 15, 2015, at 13:53 , Pontus Pihlgren <pontus
at Update.UU.SE> wrote:
No but I would put an electric heater in a steam engine if it meant
restoration would progress faster.
As long as you don't damage the firebox installing your heater, what's the big
deal? Making first steam is going to be a gradual and careful process anyway, and using a
different heat source fora while to eliminate a variable might just make sense. Or maybe
it doesn't. All I know about steam was learned in that thermodynamics course back in
college, so I don't know best practices for boilers, other than "I am not
qualified to weld one".
(yes, feel free to lecture me how big that heater
would have to be...)
Big. VERY big. :)
And one more thing (until the next thing comes to mind): I consider this to be an
enjoyable and level-headed debate, just in case anybody gets the mistaken impression that
I'm trying to come down hard on Tony at all.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/