HMEL, I have no doubts that ASME engineers are well educated, well meaning professionals,...but even the best engineers can made to look bad by poor management. I think I've made it very clear that my biggest beef with ASME is their blatant price gouging, and that's managements doing.
NASA writes and follows their own specs, which often reference other specs, such as ASME, but NASA gives themselves exclusions for flight hardware. So, yes, NASA does use ASME standards, but only as part of their own NASA written standards. Here are two examples of NASA standards:
GuideforCertifying PressureVesselsandSystems
NASA REQUIREMENTS FOR GROUND BASED NON-CODE METALLIC PRESSURE VESSELS
Please share your online sources for
free ASME codes,... when I looked, I found nothing.
HMEL, as I stated back in post #157, I cannot afford to even look at ASME's codes, as they're simply out of my price range. So the boiler I've built may, or may not, meet ASME codes,....TimTaylor seems to believe I've messed with quite a laundry list of ASME codes,....but again, I have no way to check; this isn't a choice I've made to not meet ASME standards, rather it's a choice ASME made to make their data unaffordable to most.
I have done my best to follow the laws of physics and mechanical engineering, and never ever exceed the yield strength of copper tubing (even at boiler temperature), which means I'm a long way from even getting close to exceeding the ultimate tensile strength. That's my safety standard.
As a final safety measure, I'm currently gathering all the pieces and parts needed to perform a hydrostatic test on my monotube boiler. If it passes
my tests, I'll proceed to boiling a little water.