2650: a very bad boiler tube!
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2650: a very bad boiler tube!
Photos and captions by Nathan Berelowitz, January 2013
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- Bless our 19D for she steamed through or peak season with this tube inside! One can't help noticing the holes and out of the picture sight were even more. This tube has subsequently been replaced.
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- Spikkels points out where the faulty tube was removed from.
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Re: 2650: a very bad boiler tube!
Wow gents, I thought my 3br has problems?! What are the rest like? Huge oxygen pitting in thoughs black areas leading to the holes.Not time for a full retube?
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Re: 2650: a very bad boiler tube!
Looking at replacing around 20 or so tubes during the next few months as funding permits!