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, inclusive. The data we have accumulated in regard to this boiler can now be tabulated as follows : 185 A Practical Manual of Steam and Hot- Water Heating Size of grate 3 sq. Ft. Total heating surface 54 sq. Ft. Total Ib. Hard coal fire-pot will hold 240 Ib. Total Ib. To be burned each test, 4-5 total 192 Ib. When the boiler-catalogs give these items and also the hours the boiler is expected to remain its rating, and at what stack-temperature, or rate of combustion, the steam- fitter or the en...gineer will be able to determine for him- self the conservatism of the catalog-rating. ISO SECTION XXV. The importance of having all these items in a catalog is clearly shown in Table GZ, which shows the results of an 8-hr, test based on the foregoing data, each item showing the results from each of the 6 different rates of combustion. The rather startling differences in the various "con- servative' ratings which the same boiler will afford when rated under different rates of combustion (all of them within the possible range of good chimneys) indicates very sharply why great care should be exercised in the selecting of a boiler, to ascertain the condition of the chimney first.
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