Homemade Steam Boat

This is just about as simple as it gets. The hull is a cut and soldered juice can, the candle is household wax melted into a beer cap, the wick is a bit of cotton yarn, and the pipe is left over from doing the carburetors on my Triumph. Tools: aviation shears, soldering iron, anvil (to work on), hard drive magnet (to hold the boat down while soldering), and pliers to bend stuff. If I can source more parts I’ll make another one as a tutorial. I might end up putting a shield around the flame to keep it from blowing out or blowing away from the coil, but for indoor use that’s not an issue. For an explanation of the concept and basic instructions, check this out: (Not my site). Edit: Did some work on it recently, here’s the result:
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