Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 509
iler accident as a guide, these 18,000 failures costmore than $4,000,000. Easily predominant among heating boiler accidents are the non-spectacular failures involving the cracking of cast iron sections. Acci-dents of this type often come from over-heating because of low water,and the prevention of… … Figure 1. Cracks in a cast iron section—-never a spectacular accidentbut the most frequent of all failures of heating boilers. improper manipulation of valves brought about low water and thecracking of nine sections. To have such an accident occur in severeweather, as was the case, must have…
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