{"id":289,"date":"2008-04-04T08:15:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T13:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=225"},"modified":"2008-04-04T08:15:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T13:15:46","slug":"low-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Low Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did some musing about producing commercial (hobby) model steam boiler kits. I posted some articles here in RD (Ramblin&#8217; 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&#8217;t found a reasonable priced set of roll forms to make custom size boiler shells. Hand forming is the slow alternative. &#8220;K&#8221; copper pipe is also expensive in larger sizes and limits to available pipe diameters. Lots of reasons but these are a few.<\/p>\n<p>The idea and desire is not dead. The material cost will not decline. I just don&#8217;t see a reasonable market to gear up for this and I don&#8217;t have a personal project to show off the product. Looks like this will be an AR (after retirement) goal. ~ Dan&#8217;l<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did some musing about producing commercial (hobby) model steam boiler kits. I posted some articles here in RD (Ramblin&#8217; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}