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diment from cohering intoa solid mass.^Pf- When oil is to be used for the removal of <=^V^ ; n 1 scale that has already formed in the boiler, the procedure should be as follows: Theboiler is first thoroughly dried out, so as toremove all moisture from the scale. This isaccomplished by opening… … 1908.J THE LOCOMOTIVE. 121 have become dry. (The drying out is important, because oil will not pene-trate wet scale.) All sediment and loose scale should then be brushedout, and kerosene oil sprayed over the plates and tubes, so as to saturatethe scale thoroughly. The oil which accumulates in the…
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