You regulate steam by changing the size of the fire, adjusting the firing valve and atomizer and very rarely the damper to make a nice orangish-yellow flame. When standing you need to use the blower to pull the flames back to the tubes, but when running you normally shut the blower as the exhaust provides the draft. After you've set your fire size you then open and close the firing valve slightly ahead of your throttle adjustments, keeping a slight haze (about like a diesel truck exhaust) in the stack exhaust. You can usually hear when you need to open the firing valve as your fire sounds a little hollow or thin, and you can see when you need to close it as your exhaust is too dark.jscarmozza wrote: ↑Fri Oct 26, 2018 5:32 pm How do you regulate steam production during operation? Most importantly, I don't hear a chorus singing the praises of oil firing, I'm not discounting it yet, but I'm less enthusiastic about it then I was yesterday. Very interested in hearing more!
I really like oil firing as you don't have to fire as far in front of your demand curve as you do with coal, and you don't have to mess around with gas cylinders like you do with propane. That said, I'm planning on using propane, Train Mountain restrictions, my increasing laziness as I get older, etc.