Back Boiler

[bizzard]

A quick question.

 

If your radiators are too hot......because you have a strong fire going. How do you turn the heat down, without turning the fire down?

 

or do you just have to open windows?

Re;---- the other heating thread. Keep a bag of salt handy to calm down or dowse the fire.

[bizzard]

On industrial boilers or steam railway locomotives boilers if the boiler water feed pumps failed they had no alternative but to drop the fire by releasing the grate and dropping the fire into the ashpan or onto the railway track to avoid an explosion, although if the fusible lead plugs in the firebox crown becomes exposed they should melt and begin to dowse the fire with high pressure steam warning the crew if the boiler is short of water and to drop the fire immediately. In the case of an express steam locomotive hauling a heavy train at speed its boiler would be evaporating water( transforming it into steam) at 200-250psi at roughly the rate of 3000 gallons every 50miles.

[smileypete]

A quick question.

 

If your radiators are too hot......because you have a strong fire going. How do you turn the heat down, without turning the fire down?

 

or do you just have to open windows?

 

If you have your gravity fed 'heat dump' rad(s) nearby the stove in the saloon, it's not a problem.

 

You can then choose to have all the heat from the stove and backboiler staying in the saloon, or diverting some or all of the backboiler heat elsewhere, like other rads or cauliflower.

 

cheers, Pete.

~smpt~

[fudd]

 

If you have your gravity fed 'heat dump' rad(s) nearby the stove in the saloon, it's not a problem.

 

You can then choose to have all the heat from the stove and backboiler staying in the saloon, or diverting some or all of the backboiler heat elsewhere, like other rads or cauliflower.

 

cheers, Pete.

~smpt~

DOH!!!!!!!