And when we tinkering fools modify standard butane burners to radiant burners we get much more efficient flames with more heat output and longer (read "runs past carefully designed water tank volume) run times. This means the water tank has to be filled twice for one fuel tank after installing radiant burners in the Steamlines Shay. It is interesting that the shay speeds up, but the pressure valves do not lift at that point. Thanks for the explanations of why to several of you knowledgeable folk. ~ Gary, scudding over Terror Trestle
Robert wrote: On a butane loco, the fire doesn't depend on vacuum in the smoke box, so running out of water is a seriously bad thing which is why most butane fired locos size their gas containers to be just less than the amount of gas which will cause a full boiler to go dry. _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html
