Locomotive boiler construction; a practical treatise for boilermakers, boiler users and inspectors .. . & to ji inch, three or four men are put tochipping in order to hurry the job along. To keep theflying chips from injuring the workmen, a piece of canvasA, Fig. 287, is thrown over a support B. After the cylinder saddle has been chiped off evenlyto the straight edge, the boiler is put back in place. The. Figure 287Protection while chipping cylinder saddle. holes for the cylinder bolts are then drilled and reamedout and the furnace bearers are marked off and boiler is then raised a
Locomotive boiler construction; a practical treatise for boilermakers, boiler users and inspectors .. . & to ji inch, three or four men are put tochipping in order to hurry the job along. To keep theflying chips from injuring the workmen, a piece of canvasA, Fig. 287, is thrown over a support B. After the cylinder saddle has been chiped off evenlyto the straight edge, the boiler is put back in place. The. Figure 287Protection while chipping cylinder saddle. holes for the cylinder bolts are then drilled and reamedout and the furnace bearers are marked off and boiler is then raised and a mixture of red lead laidover the top of the flange. The boiler is then lowered in-to place, the bolts are entered and drawn up tight. Thetubes are now entered through the front door and pushedinto place. On account of the variation of the front and Testing the boiler for leaks. back tube sheet from a plane surface, the tubes are notall of the same length. For this reason, a pole is placed through a set oftube holes, the length is noted. All the holes are thusmeasured up and a chalk line is drawn on tube sheet soas to enclose all the tubes of the same length. A halfdozen different lengths will ordinarily be sufficient. Thetubes are then entered into their proper places and ex-panded and beaded. The side frames for grate are now bolted into placeand the shaking and drop plate levers attached to
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