. The Locomotive . Office, leOBroadwav. 432 Walnut St. Chamber Commerce. 125 Milk St. 20 Weybosset St. 109 Jackson SI. .310 North Fourth St. 218 Main Street. 1 Sanford Building. 209 Superior St. .30fi Sansonie St. lll&112ChcesinanBlk. 2021 First Broad St. 188 Gravier St. PUBLISHED BY THE HARTFORD STEAM BOILER INSPECTION AND INSURANCE Series —Vol. XVII. HARTFORD, CONN., OCTOBER, 1896. No. 10. Cast-iron Steam Pipe. It has beea said that things that are uot constant are mighty uncertain; andthe truth of this aphorism is nowhere better iUustrated than in the use of cast-ironstea
. The Locomotive . Office, leOBroadwav. 432 Walnut St. Chamber Commerce. 125 Milk St. 20 Weybosset St. 109 Jackson SI. .310 North Fourth St. 218 Main Street. 1 Sanford Building. 209 Superior St. .30fi Sansonie St. lll&112ChcesinanBlk. 2021 First Broad St. 188 Gravier St. PUBLISHED BY THE HARTFORD STEAM BOILER INSPECTION AND INSURANCE Series —Vol. XVII. HARTFORD, CONN., OCTOBER, 1896. No. 10. Cast-iron Steam Pipe. It has beea said that things that are uot constant are mighty uncertain; andthe truth of this aphorism is nowhere better iUustrated than in the use of cast-ironsteam pipe. We have in mind a large manufacturing establishment not a thousandmiles from Connecticut, where a line of 8 cast-iron pipe had been in use as a steammain for fourteen years, carrying a pressure of 75 pounds. That part of the pipe whichwas in the boiler room had failed on several occasions, but each time there was somevery fortunate circumstance about the accident, so that no great damage was done. It. iiiliiliiiiiiii* Section of Cast-Iuon Steam Pipe. was feared, however, that this continued run of good fortune might not always prevail;and as a matter of precaution it was decided to take out the cast-iron and put in some-thing better. The pipe in the boiler room was removed and broken up for old iron, andwas replaced by a modern wrought-iron pipe with riveted flanges. The cast-iron thathad been in the boiler room was entirely discarded, as we have said ; but those lengthsthat were in the engine room were supposed to be of superior quality, inasmuch as theywere extra heavy, and were made on honor, and so it was thought best to preservethis part of tlie piping for possible future use. Not long after the pipe had been 146 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [October, changed, the company wanted a cast-iron column for some purpose or other, and bethink-ing themselves of the high grade piping that they had reluctantly taken out of the en-gine room, they put a section of it in a lathe to cut it
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