Yeah, opening a feed reg valve on a boiled dry boiler... good/ bad scale...= very bad. Just positing that a mechanical fail would maybe have given "signs" to an attentive operator. I do know that after 9 years "taming 500# steam"(USN) and the next 20-30 years "playing" with 10- 100# steam (maintenance dude). Both kill you, one just cooks the corpse faster... and it's not a question of if you get burned, it's when. Steam plant mechanics have scars.
Steam is no joke, wonder if any of these engineers, saw warning signs and jumped.
ReplyDeleteMost boiler " disassemblies" are quite sudden with no warning.
ReplyDeleteYeah, opening a feed reg valve on a boiled dry boiler... good/ bad scale...= very bad. Just positing that a mechanical fail would maybe have given "signs" to an attentive operator. I do know that after 9 years "taming 500# steam"(USN) and the next 20-30 years "playing" with 10- 100# steam (maintenance dude). Both kill you, one just cooks the corpse faster... and it's not a question of if you get burned, it's when. Steam plant mechanics have scars.
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