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ed the tube sheet. In a short time the leakage be-came so troublesome that the boiler had to be taken out of service.Then it v^as found that the highly concentrated water, leaking outat the water-tube ends, had deposited a hard-baked, cement-like sub-stance that literally matted the tubes together… … Figure i different laboratories, after independent .analyses, agreed that themetal was up to the A. S. M. E. standard and had not been injuredeither in manufacture or when the tube ends were belled over. How-ever, a microscopic investigation of the cracks themselves gave a clueto the true cause,…
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