PLAN No. 1031. BOILER SHOP
Here such fittings as boilers, condensers, smokestacks, and feed, filter, and fresh-water tanks are constructed from plates of sheet steel riveted together. These plates are got out from patterns or templates.
A boiler shop is usually closed in from the weather.
Among the men employed are blacksmiths, acetylene and oxy-hydrogen operators, layout men, men to operate various special machines for bending and flanging the plates, machinists, riveters, shippers, and calkers, drillers and reamers.
A good boiler maker must be able to read blue prints and lay out his work either on paper or metal.