While on the Subject of Steam.

DePippo79 · Post by **DePippo79** » Thu. Sep. 25, 2014 7:40 pm

Thought this was cool. Matt

lsayre · Post by **lsayre** » Thu. Sep. 25, 2014 8:12 pm

Wow, it was running 'balls out' (or 'balls to the wall') there for awhile! Wonder how long ago they made those toys? Probably not even legal to sell them these days.

mozz · Post by **mozz** » Thu. Sep. 25, 2014 8:22 pm

On Amazon for little over $100
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=wilesco ... imnmzvrc_b

Opps, that's the D5, D9 looks to be about $160 http://www.ministeam.com/acatalog/Wilesco_Kits.html
Now when the wife asks "what do you want for Christmas?" I know the answer.

Post by **Lightning** » Thu. Sep. 25, 2014 8:32 pm

Just makes me wonder, why not scale it up a little to use coal and turn a small generator to power your house. A system like that would need a battery bank for high electric demand periods and then be able store power during low electric demand periods. The generator would only need to pump out a hair over your average electrical use to keep up.. Neat

For my home's electrical use I would need about 1800 watts per hour to make it work. Based on 1200 KW per month.

lsayre · Post by **lsayre** » Thu. Sep. 25, 2014 8:34 pm

Though doable, the inefficiency of the system would make electricity generation an economical impossibility.

SMITTY · Post by **SMITTY** » Thu. Sep. 25, 2014 9:24 pm

I've always wanted to do something like that. Something I could burn trash in and make electricity.

But I'd rather build a car running on steam. That would be great!

After I watched that vid, I stumbled upon this setup in England. About 10k x the size of that little one there, but this one is actually still hooked up to all the old driveshafts and loom machines! Great vid - love watching these things work. I'm just amazed at the engineering that went into these things. Here we are, well OVER 100 years later, and they all still work.