The Unofficial Mamod and Other Steam Forum

[mogogear]

In addition to finding out if the forum has enough interested members in staging a World Wide Pop Pop Boat Build event, How about some input of categories to award on / in, and or criteria:

Not to make it overly complicated- but there is a broad range of age, skills , shops, tools, materials available.

*The only thing I would not like to see is any "store bought" hulls being recycled for use..No store- bought pop-pop engines either

*Plastic hulls, metal hulls, wood are all great, paper for that fact too. . Every thing is make your own.

*Use of web plans are fine in my book

* best decoration

* Wildest design etc

*I Can't believe it floats and runs award!!!

*In addition to submitting a picture - videos can be also submitted for a
loudest pop pop engine / quietest

*I do not know how we could pull off a time trial for speed??

* Maybe a Amateur level and a Pro???


We could give everybody a month to build and a sticky to submit them to upon completion? This could be a great way to get members crossing traditional steam lines and attract some of our lurkers to join in the fun --Pop Pops seem to be a "gateway drug" to live steam


Your thoughts?
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[Jay_Minor]

i voted yes, sounds like a fun idea
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[mogogear]

The WWPPBB

World Wide Pop Pop Boat Build...................
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[steamboatmodel]

Can I use one I have already built or do I have to build a new one?
Regards,
Gerald.

[Swift Fox]

One more wouldn't do any harm to the fleet , i must admit they can become addictive.
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[mogogear]

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[Steve_S]

[SlideValve]

Could it be either one of the pop pop engine designs? I.E. the diaphragm type or the coil pipe type
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[Meths]

Never built one before! How easy are they?

A yes from me though - nothing ventured etc!

[mogogear]

As easy or hard as you want--a googlesearch will supply you some instructions

Here is one example:

http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass/pop-pop/buildpop.htm

and then there are the type that make the "pop" boiler:


http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/boat/index.htm

There is a video guide:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZF0mjruAxM

or


http://www.galepp.com/boat/popboat.htm

That should give you an idea or two
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[steamboatmodel]

I have made a number of the coil engines, but never had much luck with the Diaphragm ones. I had glanced at the pop can design quickly, but had not really seen one run then,
I watched 26 sections of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZF0mjruAxM
I feel that I have been at a Chipmunks movie.
I think that you should post a message about this in the steam launch section.
Regards,
Gerald.

[mogogear]