Re: Sand the flues

At SVRy last Oct. I was fireman on the wood fired #3. Like Earl said about Eureka it is real hard to make smoke, or at least smoke to order with a wood burner. At some point when we weren't doing a runby, and I had to add some wood and was busy doing my iron fireman routine with quick door open, throw in a log, slam, grab log, repeat.. when Chuck who was engineer exclaimed to me "will you look at that". I looked and we were billowing black smoke. Apparently the wood had some big pith pockets in it. We've tried throwing in oily or greasy rags, but it never seem to show at the stack. I've threatened to bring an old inner tube some time, but burning tires is probably a crime and wouldn't smell so good.
On the sand thing, Scott our CMO has also asked us to go easy on sand on 19 because some of it seems to not end up going through the flues and gets behind the brick work causing it to work out. This is probably due to some crews sanding without sufficient draft.