[Steam-engine] boiler feedwater injector conection

[Andre' Blanchard]

I think that the Stanley steam car boilers had the feed water line coming 
in the top tube sheet.  And the fitting had a length of tube on it that 
extended down into the water.  Would be a nice clean path from a preheater 
in the stack.  Do you have room to tap a hole in the top tube sheet?  I 
wonder what the inspector would think of that? :')
In fact I think all openings into the boiler were thru the tube sheets do 
to the layers of wire wrapping the shell.
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Andre' B.  Clear Lake, Wi.


At 09:44 AM 11/7/2005, you wrote:
>Yea..that makes a lot of sense.
>
>Thanks
>Rick
>
>
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> > Rick,
> >
> > Most of the vertical boilers I have been exposed to
> > had the injector feed just about midpoint of the
> > boiler to keep it away from the firebox.  I have a new
> > ASME "S" boiler and it has a piece of 2" pipe split in
> > half and welded to the inside to deflect the cold
> > water entering the boiler away from the tubes.
> >
> > Jeff Smith
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