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Villa Team News - 15 October 1997
Birch Grove's boiler repairs
The stay knobbling has reached the stage where all those on the outside of
the throatplate and the backplate have been done,
and a few of the inside ends.
[Click on the image for full-size picture.]
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This picture shows the firebox crown,
looking directly down the left side;
the bracket in the centre bolts to the left tank
(and shows evidence of a number of different fixings in the past).
The washout-plug pad on the left was removed to change wasted nuts and studs.
The bright rings lower down are the holes for the crown stays.
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A crown-stay hole,
showing how our contract boilersmiths are re-making the holes by building up
the inside of the hole with arc-welding,
which will be reamed out and re-tapped to the original size,
using a tap which is being made for the job.
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The new ashpan is almost complete.
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The new smokebox is almost complete.
The door and hinges are the only old parts re-used.
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