Re: CTSRR Inside The Bridge.

Earl Wrote:
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> Steve Forney Wrote:
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> > I've heard that the Cyclone front end was
> replaced
> > by a Master Mechanic front end.
> > I hope someone who knows about this will add
> > corrections and details.
>
> The 488 is recieving a Master Mechanic front end.
> The MM front end is how the engines were
> originally built. The C&TS guys are trying to
> come up with alternatives to oil conversions by
> trying different types of smokebox arrangements.
>
> The screen around the cyclone was originally
> utilized on the 488. It was found effective in
> cinder control, but the smokebox filled with
> cinders every day and had to be opened up and
> cleaned out daily, otherwise the screen got choked
> up and the engine would not draft.
>
> 488 will be intersting to see and hear when it
> goes into service. The exhaust nozzle will be
> higher in the smokebox, and be of smaller
> diameter. This should make for a louder sharper
> exhaust.
>
> Intersting point is that the K-27's and K-28's
> have MM front ends and are noticably sharper on
> thier stack music. Through recent history, they
> have started less fires dispite the fact that they
> generate more, larger cinders.
>
> It will be interesting...

Earl to the rescue again = Thank you.