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Boiler

I'm guessing this is an old boiler.
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What are these many holes above the firecell?? air intace?? or water heatpipes?
frequent
Mon 05-16-2005
yeah,its a boiler for sure.lined with asbestos.the holes are for heating air for imput into a fan system
pacman
Wed 05-25-2005
This is a fire tube boiler, most likely a "Scotch Marine" type.
The tubes are called "passes, this is where the gases of combustion flow to heat the water contained inside the shell. What you see here is the rear door and tube sheet(the water is behind this tube sheet), the large opening is the first pass and the main fire chamber, the smaller openings are the other passes.
This appears to be a four pass boiler.
Bob
Sun 10-02-2005
I wonder how old it is? It reminds me of a book I read as a child on the discovery of the Titanic, which had boilers just like this one (as did most turn-of-the-century ocean liners).
rich_edwards79
Mon 10-03-2005
The boiler in the pic appears to be a newer model than the ones available during the buildings initial use.

Yes! the Titanic did use a version of a Scotch Marine.
Bob
Mon 10-03-2005
rich, I was gonna say something about this remiding me of the Titanic, but I don't know much about boilers, so I figured I could have sounded a might foolish! Yeah, I think I was around 10 when that movie came out, and I got really interested in the whole Titanic thing - this "abandoned" ship at the bottom of the ocean - now things are all coming together, I see where my interest budded from!
Barbara
Tue 10-04-2005
And I was around 10 when the real Titanic was launched, so I have been interested in this for a while myself.
Lynne
Tue 10-04-2005
Oh gosh LMAO Lynne I just spit my drink all over the keyboard! Thanks a lot! Hmph! J/K
Barbara
Tue 10-04-2005
nothing worse than a drunk keyboard, eh, barbara? ;)

leave it to good OLE' lynne! :)
AngelWolf
Tue 10-04-2005
Rose....ah..umm, I mean Lynne, what did you do with the "Heart of the Ocean"?
Bob
Tue 10-04-2005
Well, I am somewhat embarassed to admit this, but I never actually WATCHED that movie or anything.
Lynne
Wed 10-05-2005
Sad ending, the ship sinks, oops!! I Iet out the.............to be continued.
Bob
Wed 10-05-2005
Geez, Bob, why'd ya have to go and ruin the movie for everyone else! Everyone knows it was supposed to have a surprise twist ending! ;-)
Barbara
Wed 10-05-2005
Good going, Bob! I had rented the movie and was gonna watch it tonight! Now you spoiled EVERYTHING! 8`-(
Lynne
Thu 10-06-2005
Barbara has a "Pepsi Syndrome" problem.
Twug
Thu 10-06-2005
anyone got any marshmellows?
jeremy
Wed 06-21-2006
Hello; I would like to play a game. You are a septic monstrosity for whom everything you have turned into a landfill. Tonight the world which your ungrateful ilk has so polluted may have its revenge. The township and your neighbors have refused to bring heat to you; well I will. Free yourself from the chains that are so embedded in your body and mind. The oven is fueled by garbage from your biohazard of a home. Crawl through the Hell you have cast those around you into and escape before the bomb explodes. In two minutes the doors will lock and you will burn to death. Live or die make your choice.
Wrath Barcane
Tue 11-18-2008
Come again?
Lurch
Sat 02-28-2009
Lurch, he's referring to the movie "SAW"

It does kind of look like something you'd see in a horror movie.
Ian
Sun 01-17-2010

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