staybolted
English
Etymology
Adjective
staybolted (not comparable)
- (of a firebox, boiler etc.) fitted with staybolts.
- 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co.
- Kansas City Southern's 10 J-class 2-10-4's of 1937 had the first staybolted boilers with 310 pounds pressure.
- 2018, The American Steam Locomotive in the Twentieth Century by Tom Morrison, McFarland →ISBN [1]
- 7.2.6 Problems of the Staybolted Firebox: The firebox was the most problematical of the component structures of the steam locomotive. It required endless maintenance.
- 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co.