[Steam-engine] boiler feedwater injector conection

[Eric Applegate]

Wow boys that was close.  80 HP fire is a good size fire in my book.  Don't you wish you would have found that fitting before you built the fire?

Eric

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From: CopperheadMarine at aol.com
Reply-To: Steam-engine mailing list <steam-engine at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Date:  Sat, 5 Nov 2005 19:02:11 EST

>I guess Eric you cant be scared to pull a fire. I have pulled more than one  
>in my career. Pulled one once in a 80 HP Erie City boiler on the Fourth of 
>July.  It had just been loaded up with 4 foot slab wood and I notice a fitting on 
>the  injector feed about to fracture completely! It about gave two of us a 
>heat  stroke getting the fire out of the boiler and hosed down. 
> 
>  Later after the boiler was cool, as soon as the pipe wrench was  applied 
>the fitting broke off with just the weight of the wrench. The  next project was 
>to re plumb the boiler with sch 80 piping.
> 
>  Had a handhole gasket blow out once, even an injector get  plugged.
> 
>Charlie
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Thanks,
     Eric Applegate
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