The Steamboating Forum

Mike, your comments helped greatly. That most installations used one scenario says much quite simply. Did you have to weight your float or loosen the valve to make it work easily? Did you just keep adjusting the float angle, to engage the valve at the correct portion of flow or do you have a good st...

Thanks for the reply's but I still have a logic problem. I understand completely the need to control the bypass to control the level of the boiler, but have a hiccup in my understanding. In order for any water to enter the boiler it must have a pressure that exceeds the current boiler pressure to op...

When lines are available use them. In my case the lines provided with the hull from a prominent Steamboat Shop were not the same shape as the Hull. They were a similar length boat only and did not reflect the shape I was looking at. Being a boat builder and not wanting to take off all the points to ...

What are some good ways to control the portion of the output of an engine driven pump that feeds water to the boiler from the hot well as needed to maintain desired water level? This engine driven pump normally runs and loops the unneeded water back to the hot well. My boiler and hot well are not lo...