Bruce R. Pier Wrote:
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> bcp Wrote:
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> > Kelly Anderson Wrote:
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> > > bcp Wrote:
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> > > > and it was superheated.
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> > > > 69 is back in Skagway now.
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> > > Slide valves and superheated steam don't go
> > > together. I don't see any mention of
> superheat
> > in
> > > the specification.
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> > Superheat with slide valves is probably why
> boiler
> > pressure was 160 instead of 180 like
> > non-superheated near twin #68.
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> > [attachment 44460 69specs-superheater.jpg]
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> > Bruce
> She may have been built with a superheater, but
> somewhere along the line it was removed and she is
> now a soak
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I think we had a discussion about this once before. The Spec Card shows a "B.L.W. Superheater In Smokebox", which we determined was not a conventional firetube superheater, but some sort of thing in the smokebox itself. I probably didn't work very well.