PUT-PUT THINK TANK: BURNERS / HEAT SOURCES / FUELS

To make steam - you need heat. To make heat you usually need flame ( and some water too?). Some burners burn on a liquid ( with a wick), some on vaporized gas from a liquid reservoir and some on a liquid melted from a solid (via a wick).

BURNERS:

Trays
Pressurizing
Wicked reservoir( with wick)
Jetted- Pressurized gas burner

FUELS:

Liquid Fuel-
Denatured Alcohol / Methylated spirits / Meths-
Kerosene/ paraffin-
Gel alcohol ( Sterno)-
Olive oil -
Lamp Oil ( mineral oil)-

Solid Fuels- Esbit tabs / Candles

Gaseous Fuels- butane, and iso/ propane blends

SOME EXAMPLES:

Here are some links to discussions on building various types of burners:

A home made burner

Wick type burner

Wicking material

Small Wick Burner

SAFETY DISCLAIMER

1. Please realize that steam engines require heat and water to make steam and pressure to provide propulsion. Poor planing, carelessness, bad luck and or ignorance can all play a part in providing an opportunity to damage life and or property - yours or someone else.

2. We do not accept responsibility for anyone's actions relating to these steam engines. To do more than read the information here is some thing the reader does of his / her own free will and accepts personal responsibility for all results - positive or negative.

3. PLEASE if you are a young person or without adequate knowledge and or common sense- do not undertake working with steam without informed supervision-- It will help keep you safe and make us feel better about the whole thing!!

BURNERS / HEAT SOURCES / FUELS

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