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Old 09-30-20, 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
Ours, too. To be honest, I was pretty young when we converted to natural gas but I don’t remember anyone ever shoveling. I remember the conveyor coming out of the bin, though.
Do you remember exactly how it worked? I guess the conveyor had to be a belt, which fed a screw, which lifted the coal to the rotating platen. Then the ash fell off the edge and somehow made it into two galvanized ash cans via a Y-connector. That's all I remember, but boy did that thing fascinate me.
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