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| Joe d:
Actually, pretty happy with that. Had visions of a fountain :lol: :lol: so a mere few leaking stays isn't so bad! Shouldn't be long now (how's that for tempting fate...) Joe |
| vtsteam:
Knock on copper.......! |
| Joe d:
Thanks, Steve, it must have worked, things are going OK :beer: after re-soldering some stays, hit 60 PSI before a very slight weep showed up at the joint between the outer wrapper and the backhead, and one stay still has a tiny little seep, took 5 minutes for it to form a drop of water large enough to drip. Giving up for the evening now, and back at it in the morning with hopefully the last round of solder touch-ups... Joe |
| Stilldrillin:
Fingers crossed for you Joe! :thumbup: David D |
| lordedmond:
Joe if you can hit 2 times working pressure with those weeps as you mentioned it will be fine they will make up the first time you steam it up you can get more weeps if you try and chase down those as you reheat and cool the shell and maybe unsettle the joints that are good its nice to have a dry boiler, when I had my 14xx ( Didcot ) tested it was dry the comments from the boiler inspector was that I had bunged up the pipe from the pump :doh: , I had to take put the bung in the dome and prove to him (them ) that i could pump water into and out of the boiler . BTW the above was all conducted in a very good engineering humour :Doh: Stuart |
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