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Took me 6 hours to figure out a tube sheet leak that was just a bad gasket

Spent a whole Saturday chasing a leak in a condenser tube sheet. I must have pulled and replaced 12 tubes before my foreman walked over and pointed at the gasket between the water box and the sheet. It was torn right along the bolt hole. Swapped it out in 20 minutes and the leak was gone. Has anyone else spent way too long on a simple fix like that?
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karenb97
karenb979d ago
Spent three hours on a Sunday retuning a boiler because the flame was uneven. Finally noticed I left a rag in the combustion chamber.
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james_bell
Oh man @karenb97, I did the same thing with a shop rag in a chainsaw once...
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lily57
lily579d agoMost Upvoted
Haha, "retuning a boiler" - that's a good one! I think you meant "retuning" as in tuning it again, not "returning" it, right? Hope you got that rag out and the flame is looking good now.
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