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Originally Posted by Bomp
Awesome pics man  Thanks for posting. |
Thanks man. Not all of these will interest everyone, but pretty sure some of these will be new to a lot of people. Like these here. This boiler was being scrapped out. I had inspected it in previous years, was a piece of crap. Just wore out. My boss had inspected it like 20 years before me and said it was completely packed with scale at that time. It had been cleaned up since, but had some leaking tubes, bad refractory and insulation, rusted through outer skin, etc. Had to be removed in pieces. D type watertube boiler.
The yellowy crust stuff is residue from tube leakage.
This bulge is from a past furnace explosion. Thats when gasses build up in the furnace box area, then ignite. It pops the sides out of the outer skin. Usually doesn't effect the pressure containing part of the boiler. The contractors will drill holes and spray insulation in to fill the gap.
View of a cut away mud drum (lower drum)
Looking in the end...
