Nolan Kienitz Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Hard to add any comments on this one ... Click to Enlarge 85.24 KB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 But nice to see! Marc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Nice. First thing I thought of is my Wife and her damn heated seats. I like art that is assemblages (sp). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Kind of useless without a boiler. With a heat source, ok, now you got steam power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welmoed Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 All I can think of is that it must weigh a ton!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 That's what I thought too. If that's a cast radiator, it's a 250-300 lb ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Amaral Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 That's a "Steampunk" bike.. Cool.. Young-uns are getting into this stuff these past few years... I keep hearing and seeing stuff like that.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 That's a "Steampunk" bike.. Cool.. Young-uns are getting into this stuff these past few years... I keep hearing and seeing stuff like that.. It will go like a rocket with a heat source. I would look into adding a trash burner, maybe with a hopper feed. Lever valve with a foot pedal. [] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted January 10, 2014 Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 That's what I thought too. If that's a cast radiator, it's a 250-300 lb ride. Obviously a flat lander in Texas. I see he is going to hold it back on the downhills with a coaster brake! [][:-party] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted January 10, 2014 Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 Click to Enlarge 631.83 KB Pinterest, search "steampunk bike". There's some wild stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Amaral Posted January 10, 2014 Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 that is cool... On a thread-drift, I recently worked at a place that has one of the largest steam engines in the world still present (as a museum)... The "Waterwork's Museum" in Boston/Newton MA... Madonna mia... Check it out... I have to get into the museum to check it out at close range.. http://www.waterworksmuseum.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 That is more cool.... The size of those engines, and the maintenance it must have taken to keep them operable, is mind boggling. Every part, custom designed, patterned, cast in foundries that must have been like Vulcan's dreams made real. It was probably babbitt metal bearings, oil cups, and an operating engineer with a dozen oil cans. And the buildings that housed them; architectural wonders. Pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 Massive piston steam engines are still in use at older sugar cane mills here. Gas boilers produce the steam which first powers the engines which press the juice out of the cane, then provides the heat to process it into raw sugar. Very efficient use of energy, even by today's standards. Marc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Amaral Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 Interesting place.. here are som shots.. one of the corner area where my subject property was located (included 'tower' room) and a view from tower room south to the water-works complex with active rail line (Trolleys/MBTA) alongside.. classic "HO train set" As well as the front archway.. . Download Attachment: IMG_7748.JPG 121.24 KB Download Attachment: IMG_7831.JPG 133.41 KB Download Attachment: IMG_7739.JPG 160.33 KB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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