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PCI stands for pulverized coal injection. PCI coal is pulverized and injected directly into the blast furnace during the iron reduction process. It adds heat and carbon, and can displace coke up to 10%. This provides improved economics in the production of steel since PCI coal is cheaper than the higher grade coal needed to make coke.
Script and scatter tags are totally different. Scatter tags were as I previously described. Script was used as a currency to pay coal miners in the early part of the 1900’s in “company towns” and was only redeemable at the company store. In other words, the mine owner paid you with a currency that you could only use at a store which he also owned. It was a brutal system, but those days are long gone. |
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I believe the word is scrip. Wasn't always coins, could be just paper notes.
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What are "clinkers"?
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Clinkers are what is left after as much of the coal has burned, as will burn. A.K.A. large cinders.
Jon.
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How did you remain the same age throughout an entire decade? Jon
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Clinkers are hard glassy chunks that accumulate in the furnace, they're basically the remnants left over from the burning coal. You could call them slag, too. Periodically you have to dig them out of the furnace and dispose of them; when I was a kid we had a long handled claw thing, you'd reach in the furnace, grab the clinkers, put them in a bucket and then haul them out of the basement.
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In 1954-55 we had "lump coal" delivered. I remember seeing streaks of Gold in the coal. Thought we struck it rich.
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We put the "clinkers" usually from the stoker furnace, in the rock driveway. Had to run over them a few times. But hey it was free.
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OK. In 1944 I was 5yrs. old.
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Grew up on SE Ohio. Our house bordered several hundred acres of strip mine. Mined out in the 30’s and 40’s then left the scars and spoils behind. That was our playground. Scenery looked bad but we had some great swimming holes. Water was high in sulfur from the coal seam but no harm came of it..
State reclaimed some of the mine sites but still clearly visible today and will probably always will be! |
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Plastic mills/tokens from St. Louis. The red ones are 1 and the green ones are 5.
And possibly a few "tiddledy winks" ? My mom saved everything. Remember when band-aids came in a metal box for 67 cents ?
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My Grand Ma had a coal furnace and coal bin, but I don't remember any coins. She had an outhouse too. No bathroom. Also a pump at the sink for water. When I was young my buddy had a coal furnace and his mom would give us each 2 buckets. We would walk the railroad tracks picking chunks of coal. When the railroad picking were slim we would go to the slate dump and pick coal. One time when we were sleeping out at the slate dump my buddy's sleeping bag caught on fire. The pressure from all the coal scraps and slate and dirt would cause the coal and slate to burn. The result of the burnt material was called red dog. It had a reddish color to it and was used to make driveways and sometimes roads. Thanks for the memories.
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Isn't that what The OldMan hollers up from the basement in Christmas Story while fighting with the furnace. "We got Clinkers".
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I heat with Coal..Very Hard Anthracite. "Clinkers" are made by a process of Melting of the coal ash. as air passes by from below, they can move and grow to be bigger than Stove size coal.
Clinkers can occur on long burns and seem to happen more with less than 88% carbon coal. I screen out the clinkers and use in the driveway as well. Some can be sharp as stated. |
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