Big steam

clammy

Just looking for some input i looked at a job 5 years ago 1 john mills boiler installed in 1911 13 section firing about 19 gallons a hour just about all of the reverse threaded nipples into the mud drums are leaking the returns look like howes caverns and now the buffalo silex air handler has a leak either from the humiderfer pan with 2 sepetine steel pipe and a pneumatics controlled supply valve with a return trap which modulates the steam vale as the trap open all of witch is all being controlled by sets of vise grips or the converted steam to hot water ciol where do you start a bare minuim of maintance .what do you tel,l the ho that insists that it's all fine as mudrust stain water drip from all orfices now the leak from the a/h is running right through the abstoces wrapping right into the cumbustion chamber which by the way you can fit a car in .PS ther are 2 of these beasts there one is completly adboned about 20 years ago .There enough water thAT I CAN SEE PROMBLEMS WITH THE BURNER DUE TO WATER DROPPING INTO THE FLAME i don,t want to be around when she's firing and those mud drums or returns go what's a companies legal recall when HO says nothing is wrong on the by and by he blows through about 4000 to 6000 gallons a month in the winter nice shack yeah thanks and peace clammy

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Clammy

Write out what currrent problems you see, along with expected consequences down the road. Show it to the owner and have him sign it and date it. Make sure you have a copy on file. If you feel there is an immediate safety issue, shut it off and red tag it if the building owner refuses to take care of the problem. You probably won't make a lifelong friend doing this but you'll be able to sleep at night knowing that you did all that you could.