. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . lly whenpushed to meet the demands as we wereduring the 1 I | oressure of prosperitywhen efficiency was very low and helpscarce. Therefore, to profit by past experiences and to free ourselves from beingdependent i mmon labor to carry out detail instru I ms, we should lookfor a remedy of flue troubles by, ifpossible, departing from past practicesand improve methods. We have bee:: following the presentpractice of flue -etting for the past quar- ii is merr than the flues i an bi i ■ tand, and, a


. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . lly whenpushed to meet the demands as we wereduring the 1 I | oressure of prosperitywhen efficiency was very low and helpscarce. Therefore, to profit by past experiences and to free ourselves from beingdependent i mmon labor to carry out detail instru I ms, we should lookfor a remedy of flue troubles by, ifpossible, departing from past practicesand improve methods. We have bee:: following the presentpractice of flue -etting for the past quar- ii is merr than the flues i an bi i ■ tand, and, ai 11 i g I hi in the article of July be referred to, show ing i hi unequal i icpan ion b I en theboiler and necessarily the bacl and Eronlflue sheets and the flue, and we know suchinequalitj exists regardless of th<amount brought about wdten cleaning t any beads in the backand flush with the <■ of the the flue then can take- indepi ion to the boiler and slip in the back sheet. This might appear adi I tep after Mich a long of depending on the beads to the form, depth, etc., but, TV Rivets. BOILER BRA( INI \ ON TUBES. on the ash pits or injecting cold waterwhen the engine is standing and otlvcauses. Knowing this unequal expansiondoes go on and that it is one of the lawsof expansion and contraction that wecannot overcome we must accept it andgive it freedom and change our methodset the demands, and make the hold-


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