Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 1919
Date 18-Sep
Volume 41
Issue 960
Page 275
Category General
Part
Title The Management of Small Power Plants
Author W.T.Wardale
Notes Steam Plant: The Weakening of Boiler Plates. Various forms of deterioration of steam boiler plates, pitting, general wasting, smooth wasting, honeycombe pitting, methods adopted to detect & measure extent of boiler plate wastage, gauging for smooth wasting, the sounding hammer, Sketch showing corroded patch caused by continuous but slow leakage from flange of water gauge fitting, measuring the true thickness of a plate through a drilled hole, gauging a drilled plate, corrosion underneath scale, external corrosion