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Re: Bruno Galiano - 25 days ago
I hope you are able to contact Bruno's son Randy Galliano <leigh020260@outlook.com>. Bruno lives near Randy and recently enjoyed my historical article of his cars, restorations, inventions and prototype modern steam cars.by Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
The Management of the Darracq-Serpollet by David J. Smith - 25 days ago
I am well into research for Serpollet material and have found something missing. Ten years ago the late Brian McMorran wrote to the Phorum: "I have a handbook called The Management of the Darracq Serpollet." I believe he shared some of it with me, but at least half the pages are missing. Can anyone send me scans of the booklet? I will happily give thanks and credit.by Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: A few thoughts on existing and potential energy sources. - 3 months ago
Most of the energy exchange on earth is due to solar heat. The global energy level and balance is mainly from receiving solar radiation and reradiating that into space. Variations are due to atmospheric content which reflects, blocks or transmits that radiation to land and sea. Solar radiation is absorbed by the air and land mass, heating and raising temperature in daily and annual cycles. Sby Karl Petersen - Miscellaneous Technical
Re: Bruno Galliano - 4 months ago
So, here I am gathering snippets about Bruno and his cars and steam work. I have composed a draft of the Bruno J. Galliano, Jr. article for the Real Steam Power Series. Due diligence means I have to search for news clippings in various online systems and I come up with the names of two sons including a Randall Galliano and I get a phone number. Tonight I finally make contact. Randy is a very genby Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: old SACA/Steam Power Club Guy returns - 4 months ago
I didn't have any VWs but sold my MG-1100 without steam parts about 1971. One of thousands of engineless car changing hands no doubt. I was just digging up biographical history for the steam research today and found your note about 12 years late!by Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Doble book by Jim Crank - 8 months ago
The latest Society of Automotive Historians Journal No. 308 has Kit Foster's extensive review of "Doble Steam Cars by Jim Crank." It is perceptive, accurate and ends with the suggestion to join the SACA for a substantial discount on the book. Kit states that it is unacceptable to omit footnotes, a bibliography and especially an index. Grudging credit is given for printing the whole twoby Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Doble book by Jim Crank - 1 year ago
The Society of Automotive Historians gives annual awards for books. I just received the latest magazine which lists the fresh awards. The top award is called the Nicolas J Cugnot Award - English Language, and it is sometimes not given if there is no suitable book. This year, " the Committee had an extraordinarily strong field of nominees" and a special one was given to The Doble Steam Caby Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Someone found a steam corvair in a junkyard. - 1 year ago
This is a bit old now, but the PS/77 project printed in many Steam Automobile quarterlies used a converted VW flat engine with bash valves and a monotube steam generator. This arrangement was reported used on a Corvair conversion. This is a possible match.by Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Bruno Galiano - 1 year ago
I have many files on his steam work but not on that car. They are hard to attach. Do you use Dropbox? email me at karlpete@yahoo.comby Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Dick Smith "Build Your Own Steam Buggy" - 1 year ago
Neither Smith nor I ever made claims about the buggy's operation or performance, When something runs well and has been seen and ridden in by hundreds, it is quite unnecessary to bother to "claim" anything, just describe reality. Only one buggy has been built to the plans, the original, and I put most of the miles on it before it was wrecked in Alabama while being taken to a Greensboroby Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Doble book by Jim Crank - 1 year ago
It is perhaps obvious to note that the book is available in the Storeroom at a HUGE reduction to members, and is on Amazon for the great unwashed.by Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Force circulation steam generator design - 1 year ago
Throttling superheat is the term. Somehow you have this backwards. Steam Pressure Reduction - Industrial Professionals ... https://www.cheresources.com/invision/topic/11487-steam-pressure-reduction/ When you reduce the steam pressure through any throttling device (control valve, orifice), the steam at the outlet of the throttling device will be superheated.by Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Doble book by Jim Crank - 2 years ago
The book has been published. Those who pre-ordered have received their sets. The Amazon listing is the easiest way to get the book and is where I got mine. Just look for "The Doble Steam Car" by Jim Crank. Published by Doble Steam Press. Also available from Tetracon and a few other dealers on the bookfinder.com page. It is quite a delightful compilation with much more than a list ofby Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: New project - 4 years ago
I have become a fan of auxiliary engines. The last car I built had a Salsbury variable speed drive to keep the auxiliaries going as much a constant speed as possible. One also went on Jim Crank's LSR car for the same reason. But an aux engine would both be more stable and would start up by itself when pressure was coming up and would then get everything cooking along without having to wait and rby Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Toledo to Hot Springs Arkansas - in January - 4 years ago
I wrote an article on this with many original pictures (seen at auction on eBay) in the Bulletin, Vol. 25, No.04, p.14. Toledo to Hot Springs by Steam Carriage — Karl A. Petersenby Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Stanley SV-252 catalog - 5 years ago
Tom Kimmel wrote in a Bulletin last year: Don Hoke of Dallas, Texas, has written a very good two page article complete with photos for the January/February 2015 Antique Automobile Magazine. Don has done a great deal of research on the Steam Vehicle Corporation of America (SVCA) that was the successor in 1923 to the bankruptcy of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company. The article is about the SV-252 pby Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Lamken & Delling - 5 years ago
The article was in the June 1926 issue of Motor.by Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Monotube boiler construction - 5 years ago
When these were made at Smith's shop, he welded the two lengths of iron pipe together and then wound them up.by Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Crossland Steam Car - 5 years ago
This was a 1921 development of Harry Crossland Pfaff. He got a hearse manufacturer to fund the construction of one to four cars, but it didn't get into manufacturing. WHERE IS the one car which was shown at auto shows and is said to still exist. It is called a phaeton.by Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Lamken & Delling - 5 years ago
What is the date of publication of the four-page article on the Delling car in Motor magazine around 1926. I need a clear copy of the drawings but asking the Library of Congress to go through about 4700 pages of the 1936 weekly issues is a bit too much for them. The article as reprinted, which I think was done by Bob Ostwald of Staten Island, was widely circulated. It starts with a two page spreby Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Lamken & Delling - 5 years ago
Before joining Stanley, Delling worked for Mason-Maytag and this picture was in a company brochure. It is the same picture that Jim Merrick posted but a really horrible copy, so at least we know that it was a "used" picture when Delling arrived at Stanley. Since the image was misnamed C H Delling, it made it a little harder to pry out of the internet.by Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Coats engine test by C. A. Norman mentioned in Bentley's book? - 5 years ago
There was no testing done by C. A. Norman. Bentley's enthusiasm fails the reality check. Professor Norman was asked or paid to review the latest Coats design in which Charles French added his steam generator and auxiliary engine to the chassis with the flat 3 uniflow engine of the second Sakuyama design. Norman thought it was very nice and went on to note the various advantages of steam over gby Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Coats engine test by C. A. Norman mentioned in Bentley's book? - 6 years ago
Old Time Steam Cars by John Bentley reports "a glowing letter from Professor C. A. Norman, Professor of Machine Design at Ohio State University who, in September 1922, tested the Coats steam engine." I have looked for articles in technical and automotive publications and don't find anything. Can someone tell me where this information might be located?by Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Gardner-Serpollett - 6 years ago
My material on French steam includes a brochure on a car by Paul Buard and a few photos of his motocycle, owned by the Auto Club du Ouest, at the Musée des 24 Heures du Mans at musee24h.sarthe.com . Nearly every time it is displayed it has a different date on the display card from 1907 to 1920. The "LeMans Museum", Les musées de la Ville du Mans, will not answer queries on this machinby Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: flash steam hydroplanes - 6 years ago
So the answer to the original question is, "yes, and it works for a short time." Edgar T. Westbury's designs and the writings of Benson and Rayman tell how to make the hardware and to set up a feed-forward proportional fire/water system which surfs precariously along the crest of the power band until the fuel runs out. But in a vehicle, it would not be very efficient or practical."by Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Can Anyone Identify? - 6 years ago
The only two-seater I know about with full elliptic front springs was the Cotta, but it is not a Stanhope pattern but has a box in front rather than a footplate. Having those springs out on cantilever springs may not have been practical, so this may simply be a design or patent model.by Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Steam motorcycle land speed record - 7 years ago
Congratulations! Excellent job and really straightforward with traditional hardware. I have been following steam motorcycles since 1963 and this is the first timed run heard of and three times as fast as Roper. I went to the run pics and they are great considering they were taken by a third party. Looks like I need to get some good stuff for a Bulletin article...by Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: "Jakuba's Compounding article in the Bulletin" - 7 years ago
For Cyclone testing and tech, see the new thread Cyclone's testing methodology or results, by steamerandy. I will post some test results there in a few minutes.... I did post test information. Jim said the data was for a bash valve engine of 31% efficiency which was impossible. In fact, it was for a poppet valve engine and in the implementation had no where near that efficiency, so I asked for fby Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: "Jakuba's Compounding article in the Bulletin" - 7 years ago
Jakuba's compounding article says nothing about Cyclone's testing methodology or results. That is a subject for a new topic. At Cyclone, as VP of Engineering, I purchased a complete Kistler instrumentation package for high speed diesel service and had custom thermal jackets made for the 5mm threaded sensors. The whole setup is traceable to NIST. I have copies the receipts with my name on them, aby Karl Petersen - SteamStuff
Re: Howard Langdon - 7 years ago
I posted a note on the funeral home website, but not the detail of Howard's steam career. http://casshomes.ca/en/book-of-memories.aspx?obituaryId=2817 Here are a few of the more significant mentions in the club publications: Video of Howard Langdon's Green Monster at Danville time trial in 1998. http://www.steamautomobile.com/MMovies/GrnMonsterDanville98.mpg Howard Langdon and THE Car,by Karl Petersen - SteamStuff