I was just going thru the USS Texas website and I was wondering about the Vit A problem with them.

I assume they have the same problem as steam locos do.

It must be everywhere in the boiler rooms and engine room, wouldnt you think?

Alan

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> I was just going thru the USS Texas website
> and I was wondering about the Vit A problem
> with them.

> I assume they have the same problem as steam
> locos do.

> It must be everywhere in the boiler rooms
> and engine room, wouldnt you think?

Yes; as a matter of fact, it was workers installing Vit A in the confines of ship's bellies and also smoked that came down with "stuff" and died. (Just yesterday, my mom was visiting, and she made the point that a distant relative of my worked in Avondale Shipyard during the war install asbestos, came down with asbestosus (or however you spell it), and died.

Ditto for stationary power plants and steam plants. In those cases, as well as operating steamships, I'm sure; the asbestos is gradually removed pipe-by-pipe or part-by-part during overhauls. Once they are abated, labels are stuck on the jacket reading "Asbestos Free".

In the case of the Texas; either it was abated years ago, it is not abated but being abated a section at a time, or it is sealed and left undisturbed. I toured the engine room many years ago, but it was the massive connecting rods that caught my eye, and not the piping. :)

-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a

> Alan


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