Job in Baton Rouge taught me why you never trust a used firetube boiler log

I took a boiler survey gig at a chemical plant outside Baton Rouge last fall and the logs showed clean inspections for 3 years straight. When we pulled the tubes, we found 2 inches of scale hiding behind a false bottom plate that someone had welded in. Has anyone else run into falsified maintenance records or hidden damage on site?

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paigep2016d agoMost Upvoted

Nah, those logs could just be sloppy record keeping, maybe @alexw75 is assuming the worst.

alexw7528d ago

Read a NOLA inspector say welded plates always mean trouble.

julia_miller2428d ago

Ngl that "false bottom plate" detail changed my mind about trusting inspection logs too.