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Hi Raygers, a suggestion: If you can bury 3/4 of the tube array in DRY sand, in a bucket/tin, then you will only need half the heat on...

⫷- For longitude -⫸ ⫷-It time keeping -⫸ 1642: Galileo proposed an accurate sea clock with a pendulum for a Dutch longitude prize...

I used Fusion 360 to model the boiler, this is it in section view. It's only showing two of the 20 tubes to keep the view simple.

I am sure you are aware, but I seem to recall reading that one should avoid cadmium fumes. .

Thanks, I've done a lot of reading on the various forums about that. The consensus seems to be that short-term exposure the effects are...

I’ve done a similar conversion with my own machine, and I can share a few tips. For the SX3 CNC conversion, it’s important to focus on...

I haven't done a lot of silver soldering so it's been bothering me for when I do start soldering the boiler. So to give myself as much...

Firetubes almost ready for soldering, the four large tubes are for superheaters as per a very involved and lengthy discussion by myself...

More like this.. (now the white turned into red)

That's really cool. Now do you mean you plan on harvesting the taser coil & wire onto a more conventional looking spark plug body, or...

⫷-❋ TIME LINE OF❋-⫸ ⫷-❋ NAVIGATION ❋-⫸ The history of navigation dates back to ancient times, with significant developments in...

Hello Ray! I use a microcontroller from Microchip to control a LCD and send on/off to a "taser" module (20kv module bought on Ebay). The...

Hello Ray! I use a microcontroller from Microchip to control a LCD and send on/off to a "taser" module (20kv module bought on Ebay). The...

Thanks, I've done a lot of reading on the various forums about that. The consensus seems to be that short-term exposure the effects are...

I am sure you are aware, but I seem to recall reading that one should avoid cadmium fumes. .