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Originally Posted by 8_10 Brass Cleaner
Personally I wouldn't have a problem with doing so. I also regualrly wear short sleeves on an engine.
I've seen comments regarding this on TT before. Stood on a traction engine, the boiler is beneath you, the bit most likely to burn and scald is the gauge glass. It is at shin height. For that reason I would not wear shorts, having burned my knee badly once sheeting an engine up after I had changed into shorts for a balmy evening.
Is this ''it is dangerous'' manure a railway thing?, where the crew are stood behind a boiler with the gague frames at arm and head height?.
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I think it's also about having some protection on your arms in order to be able to isolate a gauge glass - though of course this depends on how you go about doing it?
I always have a jacket handy to chuck over a broken glass to block some of the steam for this purpose.
Conversely, I've seen people on railway locomotive footplates stripped to the waste on hot days - totally useless if a glass went - they'd never get near it.