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Point Sur Light Station - 1907

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Steam Boiler:

Kind:

Tube:

Dimensions:

Length:

Diameter:

Tube desc:

Steam tube diameter:

Steam Furnace Kind:

Furnace length:

Furnace width:

Furnace height:

Steam heat surface:

Steam grate surface:

Number of grate bars:

Kind of grate bars:

Steam fuel:

Steam safety valve:

Steam max pressure:

Steam working pressure:

Steam diam of smokestack:

Smokestack height:

Drum dimension:

Steam Drum diameter:

Steam covering:

Steam boiler condition:

Steam boiler built:

Where built:

Manufacturer:

Steam heater:

Kind:

Size:

Heater time affect:

Steam Engine kind:

Steam Engine revolution:

Steam Engine cyl diameter:

Steam Engine piston stroke:

Steam Engine pipe size:

Steam Engine when built:

Steam Engine where built:

Manufacturer:

Stationary, horizontal, externally fired

return tubular

flue tube

12'

42"

41 tubes 12' long

brick

450 sq. ft.

16 sq. ft.

ordinary fixed

oak wood

lever & weight

over 80 lbs working.

55 lbs

20" pipe from boilers to side of signal house & then 24" tile to sq. stone stack

60' (short stone stack on rock SE of lighthouse)

length 4'

27"

plastic magnesia-asbestos

tight, but thin over furnace.

1888

San Francisco, CA

Moynihan & Aitken

vertical

90 rpm

3/4"

no date

no name

Steam Signal

Whistle diameter:

Whistle height:

Whistle orifice:

Whistle tone:

Whistle chime:

12"

18"

3 3/4"

single

Whistle Signal