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CapThrash

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    Blacksmithing, Steam Engines, making anything old work

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  1. Never been in a chat room before, so bear with me. Just made a trip to West Virginia for a load of Sewell seam coal and lit my first fire with it today. Now, I want to say that this coal is the best processed I have ever seen. It is true pea coal: not one piece is bigger than a marble and 0 fines. I lit the fire, all green coal, and when it got going and it started smoking heavy i sprinkled some water around the edges like I'm accustomed to doing and it ran right through that stuff and put the fire out! Well, duh, there's no powder to slow it down. Well, got it going again, and as the afternoon progressed some other differences became apparent. for a while I kept raking coal up on the sides and top of the fire to form a cap while the stuff underneath coked up, but it didn't work, the fire just got way bigger than I needed. So I pulled a lot of it off to the side, and just burned the coked up coal that was there and it seemed to work well. And I learned something else: go ahead and use the blast. The fire isn't as tight as it would be with more fines, but there's plenty of heat if you put the air to it. i tried a couple of welds doing it that way and they worked all right, but don't turn your back! One more thing. After 6 hours I pulled the fire apart and I couldn't believe how little clinker there was. I will try to put a picture here to show you. As I said, I just got this coal and started playing with it today. If anybody on here has experience with it I would like to hear how you work your fires.
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