Motorbike Tag.

No chance

 

Okay, looks like the we might be stalled on the steam engine. I dunno if this helps. My bike, with a recently boiled steaming kettle next to an engine. Next bike next to a balloon.

 

Rich, have you skip your meds lately, give Matron a call

 

Does this count as a steam train?

 

Yeah but his was a bl@@dy kettle for god sake.....

 

Ok, well at least I tried

 

Phew! Glad Wessa reeled his neck in there after letting off steam

 

Well if a boiling kettle can pass as a steam train then go post it knock yasell oot half ton

 

Thanks littleade my mistake but steam engine or train cant see a newly boiled plastic kettle fits the bill

 

Well ok Littleade How about this - not a balloon and a motorcycle but -
A buffoon and his motorcycle

Sorry @dilligaf but funny and you know I loves Ya
(if agreeable and fits the bill Dilli choses next picture tag )

 

I made a steam driven boat last night from some foam and a bit of copper pipe.

I’ll take a photo of it sat on my bike when I get home.

 

This thread is going really well!

 

But It’ll probably go pop if there’s a balloon involved

 

Here you go, It's a bit deflated tho'

 

Ok Bike with colliery pit head lift behind it, I was going to make it a challenge and ask for a working colliery but thought I'd go gentle.

 

There you go. A steam engined boat, sat on the seat of one of my bikes

It took about 10 minutes to make and curiously has no moving parts. You prime it by filling the copper pipe with water. Once the night light is lit the water in the coil heats, and when it hits boiling point it turns to steam, driving water in the pipes out of the back. Pushing the boat forward. As the steam expands it cools, reverting back to liquid form leaving a vacuum which pulls water back into the pipe and the cycle starts again. It results in a ‘pulse jet’ motion but it does work. (I used another night light foil as a ‘hat’ for the coil which makes it more efficient since heat retention is the key to making the pulses more frequent - but I took it off for the photo so people can see how it works!)
Since writing this post took longer than actually making the bloody thing I’m not going to develop it further unless my son wants to play with it in the bath and expresses more than a passing ‘oh dad’s built another “thing”!’ (Okay Robert - so it’s not as clever as an iPad.... but come the apocalypse it will still work long after your iPad battery and the internet is history!)

 

This is all that's left of the colliery where I worked, the pulley wheels from the pithead shaft.

 

Bike next to a Castle

 

Glamis castle

Bike beside a fish n chip shop