That printer is toast
Good hiding spot
Ok, so I don’t have a way to measure that, but given the bit of yellow with the glowing red, that temperature should be reaching “GTFO” degrees C.
I don’t know how you get water to that temperature inside a steel container without the steam going somewhere else, but if I had to guess that probably didn’t last long and someone should probably turn it off
Red means it is at least 1000F. Could be higher but cameras make hot things look hotter than they are.
Ah, that explains why I can’t take a selfie to save my life
Most likely there isn’t any water in the boiler and the flames are trying to heat water that isn’t there. In case you’re wondering this is a fire tube boiler and the flames pass thru tubes inside the water vessel. Normally this is prevented by a low water cutoff but it’s possibly clogged with mud. This thing is gonna melt
Given that this room is full of trash. I’d call the fire department on them, before someone gets hurt.
Where saddam
suspiciously Saddam shaped heat signature
Holy shit, is that a Dreamcast in the box in the plastic wrapping?
Hmm, no. Ah nevermind then.
What am I looking at? It appears to me that it’s a metal barrel/cylinder of some sort and that the contents are so hot the metal is red hot in some patches, also somewhat damaged. Lots of pipes and some electronics in packaging but I don’t know what sort of place this is. A factory maybe?
It’s a boiler with failed refractory. Never seen one fail that bad before. Here’s a pic of some being repaired. There is supposed to be 8 to 12 inches of insulation over that.
https://www.rasmech.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Refractory-Repair-576x1024.jpg
The yellow U turn arrow on the right side of this pic is where it’s glowing
https://talkintrashwithuhn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/boiler.jpg
So wait. That implies that there are other parts of it that are significantly hotter, probably near the burner.
Is some magical process happening keeping the whole thing from turning into steam and chunks of metal?
The furnace section or combustion chamber it’s called. It’s usually corrugated steel in these package utility boilers. Almost looks like culvert pipe, just not spiral.
There’s a refractory throat to shape the flame at the burner end too.
Water boiling into steam takes the heat away. It’s flooded full of water on the other side, like a pot on a stove.
I believe it’s a large boiler for a building, and whoever took the picture is in a bit of danger.
It’s a boiler
You’d rather it was cold?
Geesh