Steam Locomotive Construction And Maintenance Describing Workshop Equipment And
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The cover is secured to the dome, which has a faced flange or angle iron ring for the purpose, studs with nuts being used so that the cover can be removed when required. The safety valve seating and cover M are made in a similar manner. After the boiler has been riveted up, the seams or joints are caulked. This is a process for making the joints thoroughly steamtight and preventing leakage, and consists in burring up the edges of the plates with a tool in the form of a chisel with a broad blunt... edge. Care must be taken not to use a thin or sharp edge on the chisel or the plates will be injured and their edges forced apart. Caulking which was formerly done by hand, is now done by pneumatic hammers. Inside Firebox: and Stays. The inside firebox N (Fig. 2) is of copper plates. These are planed at the edges, and the rivet and stay holes are marked off and drilled in the same manner as in the steel plates of the boiler and firebox shell. The BOILER SHOP 21 flanging, however, is done usually by hand, the plates being heated and hammered down over shaped blocks with wooden mallets.
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