Stanley Boilers - The Steam Car Club

Stanley Motor Carriage Company - Wikipedia
Early Stanley cars had light wooden bodies mounted on tubular steel frames with full-elliptic springs.Steam was generated in a vertical fire-tube boiler, mounted beneath the seat, with a vaporizing gasoline (later, kerosene) burner underneath.The boiler was reinforced by several layers of piano wire wound around it, which gave it a strong but relatively light-weight shell.
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Stanley Steam Car with Baker Boiler - YouTube
Aug 19, 2017 · Dieser im Video gezeigte Dampfwagen (Stanley Steam Car) Typ 735D mit dem Baujahr 1919 besitzt einen Baker-Boiler. Die Anheizzeit beträgt je nach Witterung zw
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Bolsover boiler - Steam Automobile Club of America
Oct 02, 2017 · David A. Warriner built a Bolsover boiler back in the 1930s and ran it in a Model 735 Stanley for 8 years, according to Clymer. Then he put the same boiler into a 1939 Dodge coupe, equipped with his own design/built Stanley-like 2-cylinder direct-drive engine, with piston valves.
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Stanley Boilers - The Steam Car Club
Stanley boilers are shipped from Bourdon Boiler Works with two pipe tap openings on the top sheet only. One is in the center and it is tapped to 3/8 NPT. It serves as the steam outlet for the throttle. The other tapping is on the outside edge on the top sheet. This is …
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Hiram Maxim's Boiler -- For The Steam Car Of The Future?
Oct 12, 2017 · The boiler concept I am now working on would be about the same size as a 23" Stanley boiler, for the same continuous steam output. Yesterday I bought a 50 foot coil of "Maxim-like" [but stronger] copper tubing, 3/8" OD x 0.032" wall, "cleaned and capped" ACR grade, for experiments.
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The 1901 Locomobile - Dr Wests Steam Car Site
• Designed by the Stanley twins of Stanley Steamer fame • Last used in 1906 • Three different pumps to put water in the boiler The next time the car appears it was in a small advertisement in late 1997 in the journal of the Steam Car Club. I viewed the car and purchased it from VCC Member Basil Williams in January 1998. Basil pu r-
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Stanley Steamer - Questions and Answers
A Stanley boiler generates steam very rapidly and at the same time carries a quantity of hot water and steam. This is a combination that cannot be had in the so-called "flash" or "semi-flash'' boilers, which can steam rapidly but have no stored power capacity.
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Steam Car Club For Sale
1910 Stanley Steamer Model 72. For sale -1910 stanley steamer- model 72 - 20 h.P. Roadster - serial #5799 I have enjoyed this car for over 23 years. It has a new engine from J.R. Gould, new John Packard pilot light, new stainless boiler cover, new ($7,000.00) wheels, rims, flaps, tubes and tires from coker tire company and much more.
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Copper boiler tubes - Steam Automobile Club of America
The Stanley boiler has a long life span. Bob Ingwersen in 1946, re-tubed his 1910 Stanley model 60's original boiler with the discarded copper tubes out of a condensing Stanley's old boiler. Driving it continuously from then until the Evergreen Steam Car tour in 1994, the boiler served him well.
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Steam-Powered Race Car – Land Speed Record for Steam Car
Jul 29, 2010 · If the car ever runs out of water during a run, the boilers will melt and the whole car will likely blow up. "The first rule of Steam Car Club," Candy says, "is 'Always have water.'"
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1909 Stanley Steam Car Model Z Mountain Wagon - sales33
This was caused by inexperience & mechanical failure resulting into scorching of the boiler costing the car a new boiler later on. Following Robert Holmes a'Court's passing the car was sold as part of his estate to a new owner in New South Wales along with two other Stanley Steam Cars, and was laid up …
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Stanley Steam Car Burner
One (1) boiler horsepower is defined as 33,475 BTUs per hour thus the Cruban burner of the experiment is generating about 15 boiler-horsepower (assuming total efficiency). Stanley boiler pressures are nominally 500 to 600 pounds per square inch (PSIG) depending on the setting of the steam automatic.
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Boiler alternatives for a Stanley - Steam Automobile Club
Advantages: Keeps car original, has large reserve capacity. Does take a while ( 15-30 min to get up steam from cold). 2. Build a water tube type boiler (Derr style has been used). Advantages: quick steam up (compaired to Stanley type) tolerant to over heating (to a degree). 3.
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Why are steam car boiler round
Re: Why are steam car boiler round. March 06, 2003 02:46PM. Some water tube boilers like the White or Doble could be round to simplify the gas flow through them or make it easier to form the coils. There were box shaped boilers in some old setamers. The Doble Detroit and the Bryan are two examples.
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Swedging a Stanley Steamer Car Boiler 1728 Glenwood Ave
Jan 28, 2017 · 1908 Stanley Steam car boiler, finished, 430 tubes,3 Layers of .050 music wire. Made from 516-70 Boiler Plate . Tested to 1000 lb The boiler swedges so mu
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1899-1903 Locomobile steamer boiler. $950. See info photos
May 29, 2019 · (Dear Friends. The photos are too large to load. Please email me for photos of the boiler if interested. Thanks,George.) I recently acquired the chassis and boiler of a 1901 Locomobile steam car. The car was always restored but was destroyed in the Napa Valley Calif fire in 2016 or 2017. All that
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STANLEY STEAMER 1906 - SPEED ACE
When they later shifted the steam boiler to the front of the vehicle, the resulting feature was called by owners the "coffin nose." In order to improve range, condensers were used, beginning in 1915. A Stanley Steamer set the world record for the fastest mile in an automobile (28.2 seconds) in 1906.
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STEAM CARS - Motor Sport Magazine
The power plant in this car consisted of two 16 inch Stanley Boilers in which was. carried 800 lb. pressure, and two 2f x 3* Stanley engines. The following January, 1906, we entered a car to compete in the Ormond races. This car had a power plant comprising a 30 inch boiler and a 41 x 61 engine. Now a 41 x 6* engine had, with the same steam
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Where to buy a boiler? - Steam Automobile Club of America
Stanley boilers are manufactured Bourdon Boiler Works. Contact Don Bourdon at King Farm, Woodstock, VT 05091. Home (802)457-3787. Office (802)457-3188. The 6-1/2 HP, 14 inch diameter, boiler is $1,750 FOB Woodstock. Delivery depends on how busy Don is on the farm and if he is attending steam car tours.
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Stanley Steam Car Boiler
Early Stanley cars had boilers that generated 400 PSIG steam pressures. With later models the boilers were strengthened and were routinely operated at 600 PSIG steam pressures. The earliest Stanley cars had steam engines that developed 4-1/2 to 8 horsepower at operating pressures of 400 PSIG.
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