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Author:  Chester [ Tue Aug 07, 2001 12:04 pm ]
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All this talk about boiler explosions leads me to ask what ever happened to Benson Mountain Company? I heard they made some loco and taction boilers that were ASME and have all been condemned, as well as some repairs nixed. I spoke to one fellow who knew a guy that had them check out his boiler for a tube job, BMC told him it was condemnable, so he had a new boiler built. He since found out that his old boiler was OK with new tubes.

Are they still in buisiness?

Author:  R. Hahn [ Thu Aug 09, 2001 8:34 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Speaking of Explosions, What happened to....

For what it's worth, their webpage does not exist anymore. There was a discussion on the Live Steam board about them, you can find the thread at http://www.chaski.com/wwwboard/live_ste ... /9550.html

Roger

> All this talk about boiler explosions leads
> me to ask what ever happened to Benson
> Mountain Company? I heard they made some
> loco and taction boilers that were ASME and
> have all been condemned, as well as some
> repairs nixed. I spoke to one fellow who
> knew a guy that had them check out his
> boiler for a tube job, BMC told him it was
> condemnable, so he had a new boiler built.
> He since found out that his old boiler was
> OK with new tubes.

> Are they still in buisiness?


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