Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 37
wo years of operation the make-up water wastaken from a pond and received no treatment. Because of dirty steamand some scale, a system of treatment was started using a decon-centrator in connection with soda ash, and this method of treatmenthad been in use about four years when the explosion… … and badly damaged. When two of the remaining boilers were sub-jected to hydrostatic tests, they were found to be badly cracked. Thecracking took place from rivet hole to rivet hole in the riveted areas.Examination of the fine incipient cracks showed them to be typicalembrittlement cracks. Table 1…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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