Go on, and don't make me pump the information out of you, as if you were a well or a leaky barge.
The outer tube is spread out at the upper end to a slight cone, so that it cannot be forced out of the tube sheet by the pressure, and as it hangs free, there is no liability for it to loosen or get leaky from expansion and contraction.
This stays the tube plates as well as stopping the leaky tube.
Leaky throttle valves may, for example, cause water to accumulate in the steam chest and freeze, perhaps bursting the steam-chest cover.
The packing of the piston and of the pump glands, if the engine has pumps, should be known to be properly set up, bearing in mind that a leaky pump gland lets air into the pump and impairs its action.
What damage might a leaky throttle valve do, and how would you prevent it?
The advantage of the plunger or ram is that it gives a positive displacement, whereas in a piston pump a leaky piston permits the water from the suction side to pass through the leak in the piston, to the delivery side.
It could also occur from too small a steam port or an obstructed steam passage as well as from a leaky piston.
The hot well is situated on the side of, and extends above, the pump, whose upper end it covers, thus water sealing the top of the air pump and preventing air from passing into it through a leaky valve or bucket.
The salted meat, either from the admixture of sea-water through leaky casks, or from other cause, was rotten beyond the power even of a starving man to hold.
At last, late at night, a little, leakyold skiff was temporarily confiscated.
A tree had fallen over the bank with its top in the water, and the Captain found precarious anchorage for his leaky tub by clinging to its branches.
After I fell in love with you, I damned near died of thirst in that leaky longboat.
You will understand, sir, that a man who feels such blood as that in his veins is glad to meet a gentleman anywhere, even in such a cursed old hovel as this, as leaky and rickety, by Jove!
Most of the leaky openings in this dam early became clogged with leaves, trash, and sediment that were carried in by the water, but here and there were large openings which the beavers mudded themselves.
A beaver pond is a leaky reservoir, a kind of spring as it were, and if stored full during rainy days the leakage from it will help maintain stream-flow below during the dry weather.
The boatmen lost their heads and were for instant flight, anywhere, everywhere, in a leaky canoe that would have foundered a mile out at sea.
Between home and their leaky canoe lay half a continent of wilderness and mountains.
If there is not sufficient water in the system to produce this result, it will certainly cause knocking and vibration in the pipe, resulting eventually in leaky joints.
There is the possibility of such an occurrence in marine practice and in stationary plants using sea water for condensing, due to leaky condenser tubes, priming in the evaporators, etc.
A week later, he turned up at the Captain's room in Cape Town, with a bundle of clothes and a story that was as leaky as a sieve.
He shipped in a leaky boat with a crew composed of one Kaffir boy; the Kaffir funked the surf; they had an upset and Eaton-Hill waked up the picket by the fervor of his swearing at the half-drowned Kaffir.
If at or before the end of that time the electrolyte has, fallen below the tops of the plates in any or all cells, these cells have leaky Jars and the battery must be opened and the leaky jars replaced with good ones.
If you know that there is no leaky jar, because of the bottom of the case not being acid eaten and rotted, it is, of course, not necessary to test the jars.
If possible, overhaul the engine once a year to clean out the carbon, tighten bearings and flywheel, remove leaky gaskets, and so on.
If the low gravity is not caused by leaky jars, give the battery a bench charge and adjust the level of the electrolyte.
The electrolyte which leaks out will wet the bench or on which the battery is placed and this is another indication of a leaky jar.
The old electrolyte need not be poured down the sewer, but may be kept in stone or earthenware jars and used later in making electrical tests to locate leaky jars.
If the electrolyte sinks below the tops of the plates in one or more cells within twenty-four hours, those cells have leaky jars and the battery must be opened, and new jars put in.
A leaky cell will be indicated by a reading on the meter equal to the line voltage.
Work on the Jars The work on the jars consists of removing any sediment which may have collected, washing out all dirt, and replacing leaky jars.
If you found electrolyte to be below tops of plates in all the cells, the battery has been neglected, or there mail be leaky jars.
You have sided with that damned Scotch parson, Blair, and by God, sir, you have shipped yourself in a leaky vessel.
The Black George proved soleaky that for a while it seemed that it might prove a Godsend to Virginia by taking Sir John to the bottom.
He had a goodly string of them already, however, and he surveyed them with satisfaction as he rowed his leaky little skiff to the shore of the creek.
The Ship Princess Anne, bound from Barbadoes to London, being Leaky put into St. Thomas, there condemn'd as insufficient to go to Sea.
Sloop being Leaky we Concluded to heave her down and stop her leaks before we Sent her homeward.
I made them come to anchor, and on examining their lading, found nothing but rice, and that mostly spoilt with wet, for their vessel was leaky both in her bottom and upper works.
After some ineffectual attempts to gain possession of a log- canoe, we launched a leaky boat, and went out towards the sea.
It is true they do not like leaky ships any more than their crews do; and they leave them for the same particular reasons as would induce them to leave districts on shore.
Whereupon there arose a discussion upon the protective influence of rats, and it was decided that no leaky vessel should go to sea without them.
A flue, when once started to leak, seldom stops without being set up, and one leaky flue will start others, and what are you going to do about it?
Don't disconnect your engine with a leaky throttle.
Dixon had been perfectly resigned to havin' Olaf lynched that time and Olaf's memory was not o' the leaky kind.
How could we be expected to know what went on in the rest of the string--with one leaky patrol-boat to ride those seas?
He currently was reputed to have a leaky tongue to go with his jimberjaws; a born trouble maker, doubtless, else he would not have loaned his service to such employment in the first place.
There was nothing to remind us of the world that had separated us, except that old and leaky boat we had drawn up upon the stones at the limpid water's edge.
We stood up and walked out in front of the hotel and there moored to a stake at the edge of the water was a little leaky punt, the one vessel on the Engstlen See.
He was fishing from a leaky old boat, not far from shore, when the boys puffed up in their craft.
She was in shallow water, and could easily be pulled up on shore, and the leaky seams made tight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leaky" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
