Low Fire

I did some musing about producing commercial (hobby) model steam boiler kits. I posted some articles here in RD (Ramblin’ Dan) awhile back. I drew up some detailed sketches. I have literally and figuratively put that project on low fire for awhile. One reason is cost of copper has gone bonkers lately. Any small boiler is going to be expensive. I also haven’t found a reasonable priced set of roll forms to make custom size boiler shells. Hand forming is the slow alternative. “K” copper pipe is also expensive in larger sizes and limits to available pipe diameters. Lots of reasons but these are a few.

The idea and desire is not dead. The material cost will not decline. I just don’t see a reasonable market to gear up for this and I don’t have a personal project to show off the product. Looks like this will be an AR (after retirement) goal. ~ Dan’l