[modeleng] Re: Char

Hi All
Where does anthracite fit in?

Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Grant" <leegrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 7:45 AM
Subject: [modeleng] Char


I have been reading the thread about Titanium grates on the modeleng.org
board.  First I must state that what I know about raising steam and driving
a model steam locomotive you could tattoo on to a tadpoles todger but it
seems to me that burning coal is more trouble than its worth with holes
burnt in grates and arches, clinker,
 excess residue, fire going out, driver feeling a bit crook after a days
steaming.
The most popular fuel used here in Oz seems to be industrial Char made from
brown coal.  There was a comparison test done by Hornsby M.E.S and reported
in A.M.E issue 119 on Welsh Steam Coal and they thought that Char was
better. As there may not be a similar product available in the U.K. I though
about solid BBQ fuel. From what I can find out its a very similar product
only a bit more refined with all the nasty bits taken out Its clean their is
no smoke no smell (cooking food with char can poison You)  This stuff is
sold everywhere in Oz Supermarkets, service stations, hardware stores. A 4Kg
bag at my local supermarket costs $6.50 Probably cost less than half that
wholesale. Tel told me he has used it in a vertical steel boiler without any
problems. If this product is available in the UK it may be a viable
alternative. Anybody else have any thought's on this.  I will keep asking
around somebody must have tried it in a loco.
Maybe there is a business opportunity here.
http://www.auschar.com.au/index.html
Lee


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