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SwarfnStuff:
Yeah Jim, Really really loud BUT the 140Db is just my guess. I do know that the dye-house open steam sparge pipes that heated the die-bath was 85Db at some point during the heating phase.

If you think of a kettle heating you might recall the change in tone / volume changes closer to the boil. Well, our "kettles" held 1000kg of wool and about 3000 litre of water.

We could gauge from the sound when to throttle the steam back to prevent an over enthusiastic boil. Later, instrumental control took over the by guess heating cycle.
I'm now waffling, but the looms were much much louder.
End waffle,
John B

Jim Dobson:
A lot of these industries have gone the way of the wooden bucket maker.
My family was in the tanning business and had a tannery that went for 132 years before finally closing.

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