Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1912 . The Question Box Subscribers are Urged to Send Questionsto be Answered, or to Comment on Let-ters Published. Descriptions of JobsDone or Shop Blinks are Also Invited. ASBESTOS WILL NOT STICK. Editor, Plumber and Steamfitter:—Igot my steam job done all right and thencovered the boiler. When I built a fireto test out, the asbestos bulged all upand in some places it dropped off. Willyou tell me how to fix it so it will stay // 6f /( V tf Fig. 1. put where it is placed? I put it on allat once and made a smooth, good-lookingjob of it—
Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1912 . The Question Box Subscribers are Urged to Send Questionsto be Answered, or to Comment on Let-ters Published. Descriptions of JobsDone or Shop Blinks are Also Invited. ASBESTOS WILL NOT STICK. Editor, Plumber and Steamfitter:—Igot my steam job done all right and thencovered the boiler. When I built a fireto test out, the asbestos bulged all upand in some places it dropped off. Willyou tell me how to fix it so it will stay // 6f /( V tf Fig. 1. put where it is placed? I put it on allat once and made a smooth, good-lookingjob of it— If you had waited long enough for theasbestos to dry out thoroughly it would»not have acted as you say it did. As thistakes several days, most people prefer toput it on in two or three coats while theboiler is hot. In order to do this success-fully, some way must be provided forthe steam to escape or it will gather inplaces and burst out, thus making thebulges you speak of which are nothingmore or less than places where the steam A f To oW Fig. 2.
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