This year during the change of another of the tubes through which the water flows to produce steam we took advantage of this situation to verify the corrosion state in the less accessible parts of the installation:

Here we can see the quite good conservation state of the boiler's rivets of the inner unions...

... and advancing towards the center of the boiler, things go on looking well.

Here the heat, water and time show their effect on the boiler's lower part...

...and on these rivets too

Also we finished the update (with full success) begun the last year of the two steam pumps that provide water to the boiler once it reaches a steady state. And we too changed the broken spring that regulates the low pressure cilynders's steam exhaust. The work was faced by Lucas Bianchi and the corresponding tests made at November 15th, since just the previous day we received a donation from Repsol/Y.P.F. of 2500 liters of fuel-oil.

Everything worked well with the exception of the flutter of the flat belt that drives the power to the generator, which forced us to maintain a low state of load regime. It is not that the problem was not known, we had already begun to work this year in the solution (an idle roller to tighten the belt); but it was not possible to finish on time to test the device.

Boiler's water feeding pumps. This time they behaved as they should...

Here is another unit's view...