[Steam-engine] WaHoo

[CopperheadMarine at aol.com]

What!
 
   All these tears about lap seam boilers and rivets  and UT and the darn man 
still got A hundred pounds. OK I want to hear from the  correct police on the 
list about how this is just plain "wrong"!
 
   I know of  a lookout mountain with a current inspection for 100 lbs and it 
is a lap seam  and has some thin spots. I don't think the inspectors are as 
leary of verticals  as they are of locomotive style boilers?
 
 Anyhow glad to hear that you may get 100 if the rest of  the inspection goes 
well.
 
 I do have a question, has he said anything about a  fusible plug other than 
the one in the top of the firebox? I was under the  impression that a vertical 
had to have a waterside plug in a tube a few inches  under the lower limit of 
the sight glass?
 
Charlie