Coal crusher | Model Engineering Clearing House - ProBoards
2013年2月3日 · Had a good look at the club coal crusher yesterday. It is of the Jaw type of what I think is the Dodge pattern. The top of the moving jaw is hinged off the eccentric of the main shaft with a toggle lever holding the bottom of the jaw. This way the jaw not only swings to crack the coal but also moves along the fixed jaw to feed the coal down.
Coal | Model Engineering Clearing House
2020年6月20日 · The very nature of coal means it will vary and couple that with the human element in digging and sorting it and it will not be the same every batch. I believe anthracite is available in grains<beans<small nuts. Steam Coal is only available (AFAIK) in small nuts, thus unless you break it down you are looking at quite large 7.25 loco use.
Use of house coal? | Model Engineering Clearing House - ProBoards
2011年10月25日 · The coal in the east around Bleanavon was "house coal" whilst the stuff around Llanelli in the west was anthracite. Geologists and scientists explained to me (as a civil engineer) that the anthracite was the highest ranked coal and the ranking decreased through semi-anthracite, then steam coal and then house coal as you moved east.
Columbian coal..... Thoughts? | Model Engineering Clearing House
2017年3月24日 · The different coal seams merge at a geographical point plus further geological distortions that complicate matters. Modern open cast mining in South Wales is insusceptible to these changes, whereas deep mining via shafts was a completely different thing entirely. Anthracite and Welsh steam coal are completely different as I have tried to describe.
Where to buy coal in UK | Model Engineering Clearing House
2024年1月7日 · Signal Fuels are still trading and prices are reasonable in my opinion. For anyone in the Derby / Chesterfield area they are probably the best bet if you collect. Local merchants seem to be stopping supplying decent steam coal although they do still sell some that would be fine in a traction engine perhaps.
Piles of Coal Seen. | Model Engineering Clearing House - ProBoards
2024年6月1日 · Guys, I was on motorcycle holiday last week in Poland. Weather in May beautiful, temperatures 23°C to 29°C and very good/excellent roads everywhere except near the Russian Kaliningrad border. S
What next with coal? | Model Engineering Clearing House
2022年10月20日 · When I bought my current house it had a coal house with a year or twos supply of octagonal smokeless coal brickets and a fireplace. A couple of years on all the brickets were gone leaving what must of been 30+ years of delivered dust and broken bits.
Firing models | Model Engineering Clearing House
2013年12月14日 · Char is the outcome of beneficiation of low quality coal like Lignite / Brown coal. Victoria, WA and SA have reserves of low grade coal which varies from Lignite (Victoria, Yallourn Valley) through to semi bituminous (WA, Collie). The beneficiation in this instance produces a smokeless fuel sometime called "semi coke".
Coal use NOT banned in Australia | Model Engineering ... - ProBoards
For unknown reasons, both EIM and ME have reported that coal firing for locos and models has been banned in Australia. This is the proverbial fake news. Not a grain of truth. It is our public running day this Saturday and I definitely will be firing with coal.
I Read About New Regulations on Burning House Coal and Wood.
2021年5月1日 · Just looking through my Click Bait and followed to an article in the Daily Express on new rules coming into force from today 1st May on the purchase of house coal and "wet wood". The actual target being micro particulates in the sub 2.5micron?? produced by wood burning stoves and similar domestic fires following pressure from WHO.