> On Jun 15, 2015, at 13:53 , Pontus Pihlgren <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> http://www.nf6x.net/
