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Both Popular Types Wire-inserted woven asbestos and spiral wound metal-asbestos--for manholes, handholes and tube caps of all makes of stationary and marine boilers, water walls, economizers and other boiler accessories. ask your BELMONT Distributor Such leading Packing Distributors as: M. F. Murdock Co., in Akron and Standard Supply & Hardware Co., in New Orleans are ready to serve you promptly and helpfully, whereveryou are. Write for Catalog The Belmont Packing & Rubber Co., Butler & Sepviva Sts., Phiia. 37, Pa. BELMONT 198 MARMADUKE .Continued from page JS4 -> even on the coldest day of the year."' "A month later, suction was changed to No. 2 storage tank and that's when the trouble started. Discharge pressure nose-dived to 18 psi and the suction gage sky-rocketed to 28 in. vacuum. Oil temperature in No. 2 tank was about 80 F. Because the pump didn't supply enough oil to carry the heating load, the operator changed suction back to No. 1 tank. "Next day the building manager sent the oil contractor an SOS. He showed up with two of his strong arm boys to shoot the trouble. His first guess was that a relief valve in die fuei-oil line had stuck open and was sending oil back to the storage tank. I guess he didn't notice the high vacuum on the pump. But after opening the relief valves he had to junk that theory. Each time he changed suction back to No. 1 tank, everything was OfC again. So trouble had to be with No. 2 tank. "The contractor checked the tank, then decided the 80-F oil was too cold. His boys ripped the iagging off the suction line for a few feet and wrapped electric heating cables around it. But even when the oil hit 90 F--no dice. He could think of only one other thing. " 'That suction line is clogged,' he finally announced. `We'll have to empty that tank and make an internal inspection. Chances are one of the welders left his old britches or some thing inside--that's happened to roe before. I'll get four of my biggest fuel oil trucks over here and pump that oil into them. Then we'll go inside the tank and -find the trouble pronto. But I can't do that for a few more months until the heating season is over,' he added, 'because I need those trucks badly now.' "That's when the building manager blew a gasket. He said if something happened to the other tank he'd be stuck and the factory would shut down. Then he'd be in hot water. " Tm holding the hag.' he squawked, `because I OK'd this job and you got your money. Now my boss'll come back at me if I can't supply heat.' "'It'll cost me $500 to tie up those trucks now. I can't spare them,' wailed the contractor. 'Besides, nothing'll hap* pen to No. I tank.' "That led to an argument: finally the contractor shoved off in a huff with his boys tailing behind him. "After telling this story, the manager took me down to the boiler room, told me to look around. Then he scooted back to his busy office. `In cheeking No. 2 fuel-oil tank I loticed that her 24 manhole-plate nuts POWER MAY 1957