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So conceivably, if I wanted to sabotage a locomotive, all I’d need to do is turn the safety valve beyond the rated pressure of the boiler, and then wait for an
by remarkEon 4y ago
So conceivably, if I wanted to sabotage a locomotive, all I’d need to do is turn the safety valve beyond the rated pressure of the boiler, and then wait for an over pressure event and then boom? Wouldn’t you design the safety valve such that it can’t go beyond the rated pressure of the boiler?
- Aeolun 4y agoI read that more as someone duct taping the safety valve closed, or hammering a steel bar a little out of place so that the valve can never fully open.
- tialaramex 4y agoRight, tampering with safety devices, even though your safety is protected by the devices remains common. Even in ordinary life, you probably know somebody who took the smoke alarm out of service because it was bleeping, rather than solve the problem.
- kerrsclyde 4y agoYes, very easy to sabotage. My expertise is UK road steam and there were cases here of safety values being replaced with a bolt or metal shims being added so they never lifted and vented excess steam. A few more PSI could make life easier but with disastrous consequences.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoSounds like the old fallback of swapping in a penny to substitute for a burned out household electrical fuse.