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Thecoalman 9th August 2010 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Luke (Post 123952)
I found the coal to be pretty awful to be honest, their was no way we could generate on the engine as it would cover our fair rides in rubbish,

Lord Lassels tried to generate on the saturday for the chairoplanes but the smoke was that bad when just powering the cab lights, they had to stop to save everybodys lungs on the fair.

However it was still a good event and i thouroughly enjoyed it.


I cant understand this if yiou were burning my coal we dont sell coal which wont do the Job would have liked to send them the welsh but that was not an option Our coal we sent was the standard in the yellow bags not the loose coal.

Luke 9th August 2010 09:19 PM

The coal in yellow bags wasn't too bad but still very smokey and clinkerd very easily which made generating hardwork,

The loose coal that was deliverd on saturday was awful. Being careful with the amount of coal used at one point was key otherwise the smoke would fill the air

mark lewis 9th August 2010 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Thecoalman (Post 123968)
I cant understand this if yiou were burning my coal we dont sell coal which wont do the Job would have liked to send them the welsh but that was not an option Our coal we sent was the standard in the yellow bags not the loose coal.

The coal we had from you was good stuff and wasnt too smokey interesting luke had clinker troubles we didnt, but the loose stuf was awfull for smoke. Did any one get any photos of the showmens on saturday night?

Ruston 10th August 2010 10:44 AM

Clinker with Andys coal not on the Ruston ,so is it the engine or the driver , all we get at the end of the day is fine ash , keep it coming Andy

Luke 10th August 2010 10:48 AM

speaking to quite a few of the showmans they all sed they had the same problem with clinker, so maybe the coal was ok for engines who are not working so hard :)

Ruston 11th August 2010 08:14 PM

May i ask what ampage the showmans were putting out

mark lewis 11th August 2010 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Ruston (Post 124328)
May i ask what ampage the showmans were putting out

Dont know what the ampage was but we were powering the lights on the Oktoberfest organ which included 15 halogen floodlights, so we reckon there was a fair bit and had no problems.

ianmorris1960 11th August 2010 10:12 PM

Watching the meter on Friday night, Lord lascellles was peaking about 150 amps on the chairoplanes.

It was very noticable the amount of smoke on Saturday night around the fair.

I didn't get any of Andys coal, but had some left over from anglesey which I took - good stuff.

I did pick up the last few lumps of the loose coal on Saturday, it was more smokey than the house coal I took to light the Ruston! Seemed like the smoke was full of tar, tubes got very clogged.

Ian

Steamhead21 13th August 2010 09:58 AM

Without wishing to upset any coal supplies.
there was a lot more smoke on saturday night than usual at pickering


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