The Steamboating Forum

For many years I have been building and developing various monotube boiler designs including a couple of Lamont ones, some with a moderate degree of success others were very unsatisfactory! There were none that I was entirely satisfied with. My last one was probably about the best. This was a Lamont...

I have been trying for some years to make a monotube boiler which will produce 80 PSI of dry steam at about 200 C and will control reliably over a wide range of steam demands (see previous posting about 3 months ago). I think I have now come up with a successful design. The main boiler consists of a...

My reply to your private massage seems to have got stuck in the out box although it says sent on the message, (I'm new to Forums!) The float switch was suppose to monitor the water level in the separator and run the electric feed pump as necessary but it was not very successful. I think there was to...

I may consider using a similar arrangement you had in your first steamboat. What type of gas burner did you have? And was it force draft? I like the idea of keeping it simple, I’m fed up with messing about with PICs and complicated control systems. I could use my original economiser coil (80ft of 3/...

I'm new to this so this is my first post! I have been working on various designs of monotube boilers over the last few years and find the views on this forum most interesting. My original challenge was to design and build a 3HP double acting steam engine and boiler from scratch to fit in a dinghy. I...