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Re: Any idea for how many balls the boilers can hold?

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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod View Post
Here's a photo of the Boiler innards used to index the Fuel and pit the balls out the back.
Back of the boiler photo is in post 23
Thanks for this photo. As a rough estimate it looks like the cylinder is about 6 fuels in diameter or 30" and 2 fuels in height or 10". This gives a cylinder volume of about 7,069 cu. in. With a fuel volume of 65 cu. in. and a loose packing factor of 60% that give a capacity of 65. It looks like a 14 slot carousel for a total of 79. Guessing that at least another 20 could stack above the cylinder height without spilling out it looks like the low goal can hold at least 100.

In the boiler field tour video the view into the low goal shows a plate even with the top of the cylinder that covers the corners. It looks like the plate isn't in this photo.
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