[modeleng] Re: Clinker
- From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:20:52 -0800 (PST)
Throughout the years, the Steam Coal produced in Wales
has had a very high reputation over here. Have all of
these mines been closed?
Al Messer
--- Clif Walker <clif.gwr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Dave and All,
>
> You were lucky with the Daw Mill, if it came in
> large lumps as it must have
> been screened.
> I've had that stuff so bad that it would not burn
> even on automatic stokers
> in commercial boilers because as soon as it got into
> the worm feed it
> crushed to a dust and jammed it up .
> In the old days it used to come only from Daw Mill
> colliery which was a very
> bright shiney coal,but these days it is what they
> call a blend and the mix
> varies a hell of a lot.
> The main problem is, it tends to be very soft, falls
> to bits and produces
> tons of dust.These days there are almost no deep
> mines any more which
> produce the hard decent coal and it all comes from
> opencast mines which only
> produce crud suitable for blowing into Power Station
> boilers .
> I have seen locos trying to run on it and the main
> thing that it seemed to
> produce was smoke.The photographers love it,but it's
> hard work for the poor
> Fireman.
> Just as a tail end, years ago I did visit a real
> deep coal mine which
> entailed crawling along a Coal face 3 foot high
> which had hydraulic pit
> props every 3 feet and was 600 feet long,I did the
> full length.
> Thats another story.
>
> Regards
>
> Clif
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Beaman" <davebeaman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 11:22 PM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Clinker
>
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