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Yes, I build one of those (can't find the photo though) and it worked a treat.

Jim
 
There was one in M E 1978 by Bill Burkenshaw , sent a pm .
 
The Pop Pop Boat was my very first poor boy' s boat and cost me a fortune to buy-------S$0.80 60 years ago.I wrecked it while trying to make it run faster by adding more heat. The mini pop
boiler fell off and I spent days,weeks and months trying to gum it back.:( Potential Boat Repair/Builder and HMEM Engineer.;):D
It was made in Japan. Japanese quality in 1952 was that bad.:mad:
 
Everywhere I have worked, the lunch room at some time has exploded in heated discussion about how the pop-pop boat works. This usually resulted in blokes making boats to prove a point and running them in the sink (or in one case, a kiddies wading pool).

The most satisfactory answer I have found has been given by the late Peter Payne who took out several US patents on variations of the pop-pop boat engine. A good description of the pop-pop boat and an excellent bibliography that includes Peter's work is given here: http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass/pop-pop/

Perhaps we will see an explosion of pop-pop boats in this forum.

Jim
 
that link was my first boat, was very young when I built it for grade school.
all the teachers were impressed :) good memories.
 

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