I took the cap off of
the horizontal check, just forward of the pump barrel, and took the
valve out and discovered that the check was reversed. I told the
engineer that if he would put the check in so that the water could get
through, he would have no more trouble. This fellow had lost his head.
He was completely rattled. He insisted that "the valve had always been
on that way," although the engine had been run two years.
Now the facts in this case were as follows: The old check valve in place
of the one referred to had been one known as a stem valve, or floating
valve. This stem by some means, had broken off but it did not prevent
the valve from working. The stem, however, worked forward till it
reached the hot water check, and lodged under the valve, which prevented
this check from working and his pump refused to work, the engineer soon
found where the stem had broken off, and instead of looking for the
stem, sent to town for a new check, after putting this on the pump now
refused to work for two reasons. One was, he had not removed the broken
stem from the hot water check, and another was, that the new check was
in wrong end to.
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