Steam Engineering Seminar Manual $20.00

This is the manual used for the steam engineering seminar held every year in Iowa for two days. We are offering this manual as it begins where Skip Gobel;s Basics of Steam Engineering leaves off on firetube boilers

The seminar manual, very heavily illustrated, is the most thorough and east-to-understand manual on steam boilers we have ever seen. Every single piece and part of a direct flue boiler, return flue boiler, and upright boiler is illustrated and explained, including boiler construction.

The second half of the manual contains illustrations and explanations of the workings of D-valve steam engines, governors, greasers (for lubrication), the clutch, and both used-to-new farm equipment.

Mike Brown spent two days at this seminar this year, learning how to operate a 1923 Illinois steam tractor. As he put it, "I’ve never operated anything so powerful."

The steam engine in the Illinois is rated at 35 steam horsepower.