Boilers, constructive details of: riveting and caulking of land boilers, proving of; seams payed with mixture of whiting and linseed oil; setting of wagon boilers; riveting of marine boilers; precautions respecting angle iron; how to punch the rivet holes and shear edges of plates; setting of marine boilers in wooden vessels; mastic cement for setting marine boilers; composition of mastic cement; best length of furnace; configuration of furnace bars; advantages and construction of furnace bridges; various forms of dampers; precautions against injury to boilers from intense heat; tubing of boilers; proper mode of staying tube plates; proper mode of constructing steamboat chimneys; waste steam-pipe and funnel casing; telescope chimneys; formation of scale in marine boilers; injury of such incrustations; amount of salt in sea water; saltness permissible in boilers; amount of heat lost by blowing off; mode of discharging the supersalted water; Lamb's scale preventer; internal corrosion of marine boilers; causes of internal corrosion; surcharged steam produced from salt water; stop valves between boilers; safety or escape valve on feed pipe; locomotive boilers consist of the fire box, barrel for holding tubes, and smoke box; dimensions of the barrel and thickness of plates; mode of staying fire box and furnace crown; fire bars, ash box, and chimney; steam dome used only in old engines; manhole, mudholes, and blow-oft cock; tube plate, and mode of securing tubes; expanding mandrels; various forms of regulator. — from A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.
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