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Quick steam video

ethicalpaul
ethicalpaul Member Posts: 6,662

NJ Steam Homeowner.
Free NJ and remote steam advice: https://heatinghelp.com/find-a-contractor/detail/new-jersey-steam-help/
See my sight glass boiler videos: https://bit.ly/3sZW1el

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Comments

  • Mad Dog_2
    Mad Dog_2 Member Posts: 7,518
    Wild! Noel Murdough RIP would have loved this.  Mad Dog 🐕 
    ethicalpaul
  • MikeGordon
    MikeGordon Member Posts: 12
    Very nice EthicalPaul! Thank you for the video.

    You've now created your own steam turbine


    Mike Gordon
    CLambethicalpaul
  • PC7060
    PC7060 Member Posts: 1,443
    edited December 2023
    Nice, I love those sight glasses! I see you were careful in modulating the steam flow with the valve. Did you experience liftoff of the impeller with high levels of flow?
    reggi
  • Mad Dog_2
    Mad Dog_2 Member Posts: 7,518
    edited December 2023
    Hats off to Roy Harper 👏!  ( Led Zeppelin reference)...Very cool 😎 Paul...better than watching a Strobe lite....Mad Dog 🐕 
    ethicalpaul
  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 10,929
    I have an xmas ornament like that somewhere.

    I'm guessing he didn't want to accidentally lose it in the main somewhere.
    PC7060
  • SlamDunk
    SlamDunk Member Posts: 1,670
    That is cool.
    ethicalpaul
  • ethicalpaul
    ethicalpaul Member Posts: 6,662
    I did keep it pretty limited but I might give it more juice when I’m ready to open it up again. I gotta lock it in place better.

    I have it screened at the bottom and I don’t think I’d lose it in the main but I didn’t want it to fall off the pin

    NJ Steam Homeowner.
    Free NJ and remote steam advice: https://heatinghelp.com/find-a-contractor/detail/new-jersey-steam-help/
    See my sight glass boiler videos: https://bit.ly/3sZW1el

    PC7060
  • CLamb
    CLamb Member Posts: 325
    That reminds me of the little sight glasses on the old gasoline pumps in which something bounced around or twirled to show that gasoline was flowing.
    ethicalpaulrealliveplumber
  • SlamDunk
    SlamDunk Member Posts: 1,670
    Boiler porn!
  • trivetman
    trivetman Member Posts: 204
    Pauls madness is a whole another level.  Sometimes i think I am nuts for hanging out in the basement watching pressure through a cycle while hes making a rupe goldberg windmill in his sight glass!
    ethicalpaulhadeone
  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 16,476
    I think we all have problems.
    ethicalpaulLarry WeingartenWMno57mattmia2