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My Old Homemade Bean Can Boiler

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My Old Homemade Bean Can Boiler

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2023 3:37 pm
by dudeface
Just thought someone might be interested in this. I built this when I was 11 out of a bean can. It's glued together with Amazing Goop. The top is a jar lid and the chimney is actually the filler plug. It's alcohol fired using a cotton ball as the wick.
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Re: My Old Homemade Bean Can Boiler

Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2023 10:38 pm
by Old Man Aaron
I like your ingenuity!
It's just as well you had the pipe venting the steam - if that boiler were sealed, pressure would've built up and you'd have a shrapnel bomb on your hands! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R348vGkjyw

Re: My Old Homemade Bean Can Boiler

Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2023 12:21 am
by dudeface
I wasn't that stupid! :mrgreen: I wanted to run a turbine with it but it didn't make enough pressure to run the turbine I'd built. Since then I have built a turbine that would have worked, but the filler plug was held on with Super Glue instead of Goop and it broke off. Apparently Super Glue is junk. Maybe someday I'll fix it.

Re: My Old Homemade Bean Can Boiler

Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2023 12:28 am
by dudeface
"Jims exploding steam engine" :lol


Glad no one was hurt. Shame though, looked like a niceish model.
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