[TheForge] Spontanious Combustion

[craig.schaefer at verizon.net]

If coal ignites so easily when no one is looking, why is it so damn hard to get going in my forge?

CraigS
Gresham, OR


>From: dann at wctatel.net
>Date: 2006/09/08 Fri AM 07:24:35 CDT
>To: Bob Ehrenberger <eforge at centurytel.net>, 
	Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Spontanious Combustion

>
>Bob,
>
>Sounds fishy to me.  Wet coal, or dry coal, it is takes both heat and air
>to get it to burn.  That is the most frustrating part of working a coal
>forge.   My hats off to those who usually get the forge fire started with
>a single sheet of crumpled newspaper.  More than once, I resorted to a
>handful of match light brick-ets nested in forge  when I needed the coal
>forge working without a big loss of time or embarassment.
>
>Wet hay can spontaneously combust because it gets a mold kind of reaction
>going that eventually heats the and dries the core enough to ignite.  I
>wouldn't be surprised to learn that the mold decomp process might even
>produce some combustable gasses.
>
>With coal,  the cellulose -  to - carbon change occured millions of years
>ago.
>
>Dann
>
>> There was a fire yesterday at a local factory in it's coal bin.  The
>> report
>> said that they clamed it was spontanious combustion.  As I recall this
>> subject came up earlier this year when one of the guys was looking at
>> storing coal in his shop.  And it seemed to be the consensus of the group
>> that coal would not spontaniously combust.  Is my memory wrong or are they
>> trying to blow smoke up our a** to cover up the real cause of the fire.\?
>>
>> Robert Ehrenberger
>> Shelbyville, Mo.
>> eforge at centurytel.net
>>
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