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# Steam machines.
 
This guide will not get into the X amount of steam per tick per this per that. It will rely on visual quescues to help simplify the setup.
 
Once you have this setup you fill the boiler with coal/charcoal/coke etc and let it fill up the tank with steam. Then you do some processing. Your visual ques will be the tank emptying out of steam.
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* 1x Solid Fueled Boiler Firebox (Railcraft) - Found in Multi-Block Goals Quest Tab
* 1x Low Pressure Boiler Tank (Railcraft) - Found in Multi-Block Goals Quest Tab
*1x Iron Tank (Railcraft) - Found in Multi-Block Goals Quest Tab (you can make it bigger!)
* 14x (approx) Bronze Fluid Pipes (GregTech)
* 4x (approx) Small Bronze Fluid Pipes (GregTech)
* 4x (approx) Small Wooden Fluid Pipes (GregTech)
 
The idea of running Small Bronze Fluid Pipes to each machine branching off of the regular Bronze Fluid Pipes is based on experience (not exact science). This helps the system be a little more stable. Instead of running the full steam source into each machine you take just a bit. In my experience You can run 2 machines at a time this way almost constantly (pending the level of the steam in the tank). I find the Alloy Smelter is the most demanding of the machines so I always put that first. The rest of the core steam machines don't matter nearly as much.