Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 165
Fig. 2. Figs. 2 and 3 show the result of allowing sediment to collect on the lower tubesheet of an upright tubular boiler. It is a very remarkable case. The head was one-half inch thick, the material, steel. In consequence of an accumu-lation of sediment between four adjacent tubes, the head at… … Fig. 3. in the small area between the tubes. It was so hot that its condition was plastic ; it wasnearly melted in fact. It seems almost impossible that such a small isolated part of aplate could become so hot, surrounded as it was by the large mass of cooler metal in 1883.] THE LOCOMOTIVE. 163…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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