Boiler patched?

[Mike Lamb]

60 year old Bryant steam boiler. Does the cast iron look more recently patched or could this be from original manufacturing? I didn't see the boiler fire but there was water in the sight-glass. No leaks.

 

Edited August 31 by Mike Lamb
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[Bill Kibbel]

Resealing of the joints between boiler sections with furnace cement isn't unusual, although most service techs won't do that now (they just sell new boilers).

In that last picture, it looks like the most recent patching isn't at the seams, but maybe around clean-out covers.  I can't tell for sure from the picture.  It's excessive patching so I'd be concerned.

[Mike Lamb]

Thanks, Bill.

[Rob Amaral]

I see furnace-cement like that often at the boiler 'flue' clean-out cover areas often Mike... the application where cast-iron sections meet may indicate a past problem (MAY, may not). Guys tend to 'goop the crap' out of intersections of materials as both a good measure and CYA or just out of plain ignorance... no way to tell (unless you saw SOOT marks near related)...   With a lot of these things, the phrase "we cannot predict performance moving forward' is going to include ......

Edited September 8 by Rob Amaral