Decent steam engine smoke at long last - how long did this take!!!
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Decent steam engine smoke at long last !!!!
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Well, it's grey smoke, not black, so the fireman is doing OK!
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And no pixellated lumps pouring out of the stack!
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I'm not sure what I'd do if I were firing and I discovered pixellated lumps in the coal....
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You would use a filter to smooth them - if you had the memory of course to resolve (subtle this) the problem!
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British steam locomotives carry a thing called a coal pick - basically a tool like a bigger and heavier geologist's hammer or ice axe - as British steam coal used to come with some house brick sized lumps in it which had to be broken up before being hoyed into the firebox. Would a coal pick help with pixellated lumps, perhaps?! It's all in line with the general adage that if it doesn't work, you hit it with a hammer. If it still doesn't work, you need a bigger hammer. You think I'm joking? Come down to Capital Park when there's a loco in steam, or some serious maintenance going on...