The Steamboating Forum

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Naw thats really a painting! A good one mind you! One day when you have lots of time you can show me! Den

That's really coo looking.. how does one do this?

how does one do this?

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I hate to point this out, but if Libertas, the Roman Goddess of freedom is busy checking that none of the head nuts are coming loose, who the hell is checking the water level )

I'm concerned about the universals he's had to use to put the engine that far to starboard! The engine goes in the middle man, then you just run a straight shaft and butt the flange on the shaft up to the flange oin the engine and bolt it up!
Daniel

Dear Daniel,
you build steam boats how you like and I will build them how I like.
Jack

With such narrow tippy boats, it's not a bad idea to offset the machinery a bit to balance the boat with passenger's or engineers usually sitting on one side.

It appears Jack has taken unbridge to my comment, no offense meant Jack, was meant to be in jest! While I prefer a straight shaft, there are uses for putting the engine slightly offset, obviously in this case its for firing purposes. In our local commercial steamlaunch "Kapanui", the engine is slightly offset to allow the passengers to be able to walk past it while still allowing a decent head compartment on that side of the boat. Its not a big offset, so most don't notice, but the observant pick it up. Being a big engine, it chewed out universal joints initially, but the large CV joints have worked well, no knocking from the drive train now.
Daniel