[Steam-engine] Need boiler inspector in GA for Altman Taylor

[Andy glines]

Steve, hopefully the buyer knew about these issues
when he bought the engine and priced it accordingly. 
The things that you have written about are significant
issues.  Instead of looking for a state boiler
inspector I suggest that you look for a boiler repair
shop.  The people at the shop can look at the boiler
and recommend the needed repair.  If you need help
locating a good boiler shop write back to this list. 
I'm sure that some of us will have suggestions.  It
would be a bad idea to build a fire in this boiler
before a knowledgeable person has a chance to take a
look at it.  
--- steve hall <livesteam at hotmail.com> wrote:

> A member of our local gas engine club up in GA
> bought a Aultman-Taylor from 
> some one up in Hastings, MI. This traction engine
> has a lot of serious  
> welding repairs/patches in the fire box. There are 7
> staybolts weled to the 
> crown sheet on the inside of the fire box. The crown
> sheet is terribly 
> warped from serious over heating. The sides of the
> fire box have been 
> replaced with about 10" high steel plates from one
> end of the fire box to 
> the other. Who ever did this work could not get a
> whole fire box side into 
> the fire box as this is a water bottm boiler. There
> is no safety fusible 
> plug in  it, just a stadard pipe plug screwed into
> the crown sheet. The 
> bottom of the ash pit has a large steel plate weled
> over most of it and it 
> appears to be welded right over the old floor. We
> need a local boiler 
> inspector in GA to come look it over. Anybody here
> know of a boiler 
> inspector in the southern part of GA? We would like
> to know more about this 
> traction engine, does anyone in MI know about it?
> With the crown sheet 
> warped so badly the new owner has been advised by
> other steam owners not to 
> run it. Any help would be great. The MI inspection
> number on this 
> engine/boiler is: M399695M. Thank you, Steve
> 


Andy Glines
Evansville, IN


 
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