Abstract: A boiler tube peeler tool useful in connection with the removal of boiler tube flared-end segments from retention within a power boiler drum wall is provided with a tool guide element that slidably co-operates with boiler tube flared-end segment, and with a tool peeler element that slidably co-operates with the guide element and that peels unwanted gap metal from the boiler tube flared-end segment by shearing and bending when manually forced throughout the length of the retained boiler tube flared-end segment.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed which are for use in installing the end segments of boiler tubes in the drum walls of a high-pressure steam boiler, and which involve expanding rather than swaging boiler tube end segment metal into intimate contact with grooved boiler tube bores provided in the steam boiler drum walls.

Abstract: A boiler tube peeler tool assembly useful in connection with the removal of boiler tube flared-end segments from retention within power boiler header walls is provided with a tool body subassembly, a clamp subassembly carried by the tool body subassembly and having pairs of clamp expansion jaws that engage the boiler tube flared-end segment interior surface, a peeler blade subassembly that bends and shears retained longitudinal gap metal from retention by the boiler tube flared-end segment, and a conventional pressurized-fluid actuator for reciprocally powering the peeler blade subassembly.

Abstract: A compression tool assembly that is useful in connection with the removal of boiler tube flared-end segments from retention within power boiler header walls is provided with oppositely paired compression jaw elements that are rotated to cause the wall of a longitudinally gapped boiler tube flared-end segment to be compressed into a cross-section configuration that permits comparatively easy tube segment withdrawal.

Abstract: A power boiler tube removal tool assembly is provided with co-operating shear block cavity, shear blade, and anvil elements that function to shear and inwardly bend gap metal in a boiler tube flared-end segment to thereby facilitate subsequent boiler tube flared-end segment peeling, crushing, and withdrawal steps that complete tube end removal from retention within a boiler drum wall.