The Modern Practice of American Machinists Engineers Electronic Resource Inc
The Modern Practice of American Machinists Engineers Electronic Resource Inc
Watson, Egbert P. (Egbert Pomeroy)
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The remedy in this case was to lessen or obstruct the draught to add a bridge wall five or six feet from the fur- nace door, and to put a damper in the chimney, so as to arrest the heat when desired. The field for improvement is very wide. The proportion of heat utilized to that driven off or lost is very little hardly one tenth and this waste is going on continually. Of course the quantity differs in different boilers, and can be STARTING FIRES UNDER BOILERS. 217 greatly lessened by good manag...ement, but that great slovenliness in the use of fuel, and great, indifference prevails on the part of proprietors toward getting competent engineers to attend their boilers, is apparent to any intelligent observer. STARTING FIRES UNDER BOILERS. A very mischievous practice exists in various parts of the country, in reference to starting fires under steam-boilers preparatory to raising steam ; this duty is entrusted to ignorant watchmen, who are too often the agents of disaster. Those men are instructed to light the fire at a certain hour, and generally comply with their orders without exer- cising the least judgment on the subject; they rarely try the gages to see that there is water in the boiler before fulfilling their duty.
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