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yond this pressure. If you are careful about this, there 

 is no danger about its sticking some time when you d 

 happen to be watching the gauge. The steam gauge will 

 tell you when the pop ought to blow off, and you should 

 see that it does. The following dialogue occurred in the 

 ''.earing: 



A big fat duffer came into the shop with a steam gauge 

 in 1. i throwing it down on the bench said, 



"That gauge is no good." 



"What's the matter with it?" said the superintendent 

 "Why I tell you it's no good, it went up to 180 pounds 

 before the pop bio wed off." 



"It did, did it ?" said the superintendent 



"1 low do you know the pop isn't off?" 



1 fatty's face showed clearly that a new idea had 

 hit him hard. 



His gauge was tested with the standard gauge in the 

 engine room and found to correspond with it to a pound. 

 The superintendent of the shop told him to go back and 

 after his pop valve. He picked up his "no good" 

 gauge and walked out, and he actually appeared to be 

 thinking about something. 



