Identifier: layingoutforboil01newy (find matches)
Title: Laying out for boiler makers and sheet metal workers; a practical treatise on the layout of boilers, stacks, tanks, pipes, elbows, and miscellaneous sheet metal work
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: Steam-boilers Sheet-metal work
Publisher: New York, The Boiler maker
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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pots, fitted with brasshydrometers and thermometers, connected to the boiler, as di-rected. They will be located in the fire room or where re-quired. Boiler Drain Cocks and Aircocks. The boiler will have one or more approved drain cocks,placed so as to drain the boiler thoroughlj. The boiler will have at the highest point an approved5^-inch aircock. Zinc Boiler Protection. Zinc for the protection of the boiler will be held in basketssuspended from the stays, or as approved; these baskets willbe made of wrought iron, perforated on the sides and solidon the bottom. The baskets in each boiler will contain suf-ficient rolled zinc to make the total quantity for the boilernot less than 100 pounds for each 15 square feet of grate sur-face, and the baskets will be distributed as directed. Eachstrap for supporting the baskets will be filed bright where itcomes in contact with the stays, and the outside of the jointwi)l be made water tight by approved cement. HOW TO LAY OUT A SCOTCH BOILER 137
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