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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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It was me that commented previously. A railway thing if you like, but water at 150c and upwards flashing into steam and then vapourising won't just pick on your shins- honest. If you are supremely confident in the integrity of any restrictors and balls in the frames, then take the risk, but if not, please reconsider. A glass rarely gives notice of its intentions so it is a shock when it happens. So many accidents have happened as a knock on of the Driver nursing injuries, so not being able to attend to his duties. Remember, a protector often acts as a deflector, spreading the good news around the footplate and if you don't have backplates, the shards of glass get everywhere. Boring Vern.
20th July 2009, 07:07 AM
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