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Need Help Identifying a Steam Launch
By: steamlauncher Date: July 8, 2019, 11:17 am
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Hello!
Can anyone tell me anything about my French pond steam launch?
The maker's label states "Navigable" and "Made in France" but no
more. It is 32" long, 6" wide; two deck openings, a forward
hatchway (?) and a cabin with portholes but roof is missing. The
rudder is outboard with a curved metal strip notched on top to
keep the movable tiller in position; the boiler is enclosed in a
metal covering with a "smokestack" of about 2" high, 1"
diameter; it has a 2-cylinder, osillating, horizontally opposed
engine. The connection between the engine and propeller shaft is
a wire from the driveshaft bent into a crank handle shape and
pressing on a 90 degree bent wire from the propeller shaft. A
photo would help you but I have a currently unsolved problem
with loading photos. Any help would be of value. I've searched
the Internet and found absolutely nothing.
R.K.
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Re: Need Help Identifying a Steam Launch
By: RedRyder Date: July 8, 2019, 12:39 pm
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Hi RK, 1st.... Welcome Aboard....!!!
from, Connecticut, USA.
it will be very helpful if you could post some pictures of your
model steam launch.
Gil
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Re: Need Help Identifying a Steam Launch
By: txlabman Date: July 8, 2019, 1:14 pm
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Welcome aboard from the Great State of Texas!
As Gil noted, a picture is worth a thousand words. 🤠
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Re: Need Help Identifying a Steam Launch
By: Stoker Date: July 8, 2019, 2:06 pm
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Welcome steamlauncher, you are our 200th registered member here
on this rather new Forum. Congratulations on finding us!
I'll try to offer help on posting photos, but might just confuse
you. Perhaps best to wait for one of the computer savvy members
to chime in, so you get it right the first time. What I do know
is that importing images from photobucket works okay.
For posting direct from your computer files, you go two bars
below the text window that you write your post in to where it
says Attach:
There are two windows there in horizontal line ... go to the
right hand narrower window first and select the option from the
dropdown menu that reads .... "End-of-post expandable
thumbnail".
Next click on "Choose File" in the blue box within the left-hand
window and the box will prompt you with "No file chosen" while
opening up a window that accesses your computer's files. You
must choose the file in your computer where you have the desired
photos stored, and double click on the photo you wish to post.
That image's code should then appear in that lefthand Attach box
and will be ready to appear in your post, but then you also want
to return to the right-hand box and get the dropdown menu again
and this time choose the option "Inline full-size image".
If you wish to attach more photos, then click the blue
highlighted (more attachments) that appears just below that
lefthand box, and another identical set of boxes will appear
just below the first ones, so just repeat the process again.
Hope that helps with the photo posting, but again, there are
others far better at this than I, so perhaps wait to hear from
them to help avoid undo frustration.
I would add that we have a deeply knowledgeable French member
who will most likely have some idea as to the maker of the boat
you are asking about, but as always "a picture is worth a
thousand words", so hopefully you will have some posted by the
time he looks in.
Cheers, and I hope you enjoy your time among us!!!
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Re: Need Help Identifying a Steam Launch
By: steamlauncher Date: July 10, 2019, 7:50 pm
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Thanks for all the support regarding posting photos of my
steamboat. I've tried everything I can think of but all I get is
"Some browsers may not support..." I have a Galaxy S4. I can
attach photos to text messages but not email. I'll keep trying.
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Re: Need Help Identifying a Steam Launch
By: RedRyder Date: July 10, 2019, 8:28 pm
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Send me the best picture you can in the largest file possible by
text to 2o3 ate03 ninenine48
with make model and year if known.
I will then email it to myself and extract it from the email.
Gil
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