Mechanics swarmed about the rocket, checking lines, valves, and pumps.
Included should be vacuuming the inside of the furnace, cleaning and adjusting the burners, checking the pilot light or ignition system, the burner flame controls, thermocouple (a safety device), gas-pressure regulator, valves and the plumbing supplying the furnace.
Check valves and controls.
Workers have been checking valves to see if they have somehow repeated the Bay Ridge error, creating a dead end in the system where water can stagnate, but have not found any such configuration.
The Drinking Water Inspectorate said to the ENDS Report that this was not the first time that the company had failed to check valves before working on its distribution mains.
If the pressure at the outlet is lower than the pressure at the inlet and remains that way in spite of the pumping, then this pressure difference opens both check valves simultaneously and the liquid flows through the pump head uncontrollably from inlet to outlet.
Machinists check pipes and valves, electricians fix broken ventilation fans and control-room operators test the instruments that monitor the workings of the vast machine.
Then the blowers stopped and check valves clicked into their seats.
Here he checked the various dials and valves on his matter-making machine.
The Partial Stroke Test is used to check the function of the safe position of ESD (emergency shutdown) valves.