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The Plugged Stack Arrsn wading through welding lit erature and vUiting maintenance shops to run a few hard-lacing beads oarselves, one morning we finally said, "To hell with' welding." Then we headed lor Bedlam'* Beni Propeller Bar. ThJ* habit of blowing our safeties comes from our seafaring days, when we worked around the clock overhauling boilers down in Rio, then headed ashore with our fireroom gang for a well-earned steak dinner at El Toro Grande. We ended up by sashaying the girlies around the dance floor at Cafe La Vista until close to sailing time next evening. The Bent Propeller in New York is a far cry from those Soath American hot spots we visited each trip, but It, too, Is rewarding. For one thing, where else can you stand, ait or lie (as the case might be) at the feet of that muter power engineer, Mermaduke Surfaceblow? Msnny we* docked at his usual berth, all 6 ft 4 Inches of him, holding up bis end of the bar. The loud guffaws, clanking glasses and general confusion seemed not to disturb our hero's silent reverie. With his old gray bowler shoved down toward the bow of his massive white dome, he just stared Itfe of Sandpaper Gin before hlm?, "You guys might of openJRs plants," a character near saying, "but I've done some fijSS rule engineering in my day.* "BocgWATCn ON BOOK ~*) who n err their haniJS roared'Marmaduke, suddenly life. "I'll tell you about oap^$ plugged stack that had a|) engineers et see." That did it. The cash cmtei[* their traps and settled down, foftfSS master was about to sound oil. iSp** "Back In 1939 I landed at tbe^- Rfver'a mining camp fn the of northern Ontario," bellowed -wl duke in his foghorn volee. *rye'i3 going to sink a shaft in whirl* turned out to be a rich deposit eft rock/ with a high nlekel eonteatA! "The place was so far from ufa that everything from mtchlnery.'toiM supplies was flown In. And trtii}i lion elone for spud* cost 918 s ft There already were three bunk (T a commissary, a mess hall and a p plant building when 1 arrived. Bun machinery was scattered all hillside. My job was to set It sptn get up steam. ^1 "I hod a handful of men to bdfc install two 90-bp boilers, aoe'-itat driven air compressor, a small e)L generator, pumps and a steam botan &F**'SS-100,OOOX nk*g*m*n' *f loto* iptioro' v**d toUhrolo S' / 'Hiitno mitnuape to Waft* lebaratoriot. Art*l etow#r ol kfipkmih 0.11 mlcreni--.0000017J nh*l lfl*-li*^0 Pl- i. (Hombtr *1 Nek* ilirtrifl mkfMCQpi. the mine cage. We put up the 60-fittj tack with a large ocreen around lufrr p,.?fHow they assist research to keep, sparks from burning th?B rounding brush. That screen.wuUtL four feet high. lijjj ;i6word better Water Treatment "There was e large clipper oojtjn screen to choke soot loose so thsj ' ,"fiRHAPS even too small to make good marbles for wouldn't plug - up. The elspparjm microbes, these tiny spheres help Nalco Scientists in worked by a long chain runnlagidp* ^tkdt investigations of the microscopic realms of matter the stack. ^tdji^ecently made visible to the human eye by the "The boilers were hand-fired ^ cordwood from the 'nearby bnufc&j j^kcwoc microscope. used natural draft. Steam preisuffjkg ^JJw^tbe electron microscope in water treatment re- controlled by opening up or cloiip^l the stack dampers snd ashpit dowl "I had all the etjulpment set op,'uf lit off the boilers a month after,V' ing. With steam up, the camp tWt began to ham. And by the tltbfiflj shaft was euok, the plant was nij* around the clock, seven dayi a ' "After'all that work the mine sj-p* V^tchls significant because It typifies the continuing the entire Nalco organisation to keep the ^d^u System representative of the first and best in all : of modern industrial water treatment. ^ 1J51;sre not already participating in the economy ciency of the Nalco System in your plant, write j n rtil w,ie,> *T*,ment security today. intendent told me to tako a week down to Toronto. Said he dm 1 AIUM1NATI CORPORATION lot of new help coining In. He ' SttJ Won 661b Noe* Chicago 3S. Illtool* me to take a good rest so nothing i; **> la Ceaada: Attbrm Limitrd, up after I got back beeausedm.Sj BarUngtea, Ontario had to produce from the word "I peeked my bag and left next plane, fn Toronto 1 csuPOU with civilisation, bought suppliM,^ for good measure checked up (Continued on page 204) _ SYSTEM . * Serving Indatirg through IVoertcaJ Applied Selene* mi . PLANT OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE SECTION eras icff.St y,l WATER TECHS Now KpilRl el M.M.L Vapor No. SX-A-lOi lipt(liR(Rkl fivdloi of Bolf* Tvbo Moral Tomporelvroi t Effort of Hoot T'anifor Rolo and Dopoitl TMfc*oM, gVvtt ttchnUol data on highhod (realtor raft offol (t<0,000 t* 000,000 Brv/tq. fl./tir.) at proitero* fitn HO la 1500 p.i.l. IS pego*. with tafalot and dfepenw. Aothori C. Jarhtln, Olrortor, Inglnoorlng Rotoorrti, National Afumlnato CntporeUnn. Your Copy Free Upon Request