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| 401 out on boiler washout today |
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| Also taking the opportunity to remove the boiler barrels bottom belly plate to replace a suspected broken gasket |
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| After finishing washing through from the front, Steve begins chasing scale and sludge round the foundation ring |
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| Having a look in... |
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| ...the view looking in through the bottom of the barrel toward the firebox... |
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| ...and toward the smokebox |
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| Washing the bottom of the barrel towards the firebox and down into the foundation ring |
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| David begins making a new gasket for the belly plate |
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| Steve cleans up the flange and studs |
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| David re-fitting mud-hole doors |
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| Hose in after re-fitting washout plugs, mud-hole doors and the belly plate/manhole |
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| Warming fire lit after filling the boiler and re-fitting the last plug |
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