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Battleship New Jersey recently did a video about the (possibly apocryphal) method of detecting steam leaks with a broom. I wonder if NASA got the idea from old
by rolenthedeep 4y ago
Battleship New Jersey recently did a video about the (possibly apocryphal) method of detecting steam leaks with a broom. I wonder if NASA got the idea from old sailor lore.
- mesofile 4y agoIt’s not apocryphal. My father worked for the US Navy making training and orientation films; one of these was about firefighting and hazardous materials handling on board ship. It included some entertaining segments — for some reason they use (or used, this was the 80s) pure sodium on some ships and they described the difficulty and danger of storing such a substance. The use of a broom to detect invisible but very dangerous leaks from high-pressure steam lines was also demonstrated.
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