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- Manbench Industries; Purveyors of general mayhem since 1994, a blog to follow the crazed, possibly deranged projects and emotive musings, of an undergraduate engineer, and an apprentice organ builder who have always felt they were born in the wrong age. Follow us as we, re-write history, learn lost skills, discover strange new worlds, break things, rant at things, mend things, make new things and generally find ways of passing the day instead of doing "proper work" !
Monday 17 December 2012
Steam Generating Plant
This project, from about three or four years ago now is one I am very pleased with. It started life as a standard Wilesco D20 steam engine that I bought many many years ago from PPS Steam Models (now sadly defunct) and provided me many years of enjoyment. I decided to do something with it and after experimenting with a few Meccano motors I came up with a nice design for a generator. I came up with further ideas which were added to the design as I went along: a boiler feed pump to keep the water topped up, a control panel, and a water tank among other things. The project is still not finished - I have a few ideas for further improvements such as the fitting of a gas burner to make the increased running times allowed by the boiler feed pump to be more enjoyable.
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