> Josh,
> PA is a big coal state. What goes along with coal are furnaces. Years
ago
> people started burning coal for both home and business use. When you burn
> coal in a furnace, you create cinders; partially burned coal. Cinders are
> also created in furnaces used for forging metal. Not only do you get
> cinders from the coal, you get them from the metal that is being forged in
> the form of slag, a by- product of purifying metal. Between the two, huge
> anounts of cinders have been created over the years. (Especially from the
> steel mills.) Now I'm not that old (at least not ancent anyway), and I
> can't testify to this, but I believe this is where most of PA's cinders
have
> come from.
> Rich - (ex PA Yankee; now a Damn Yankee living in VA)
>
> PS. I want to know something. I've been in VA now for over half my life.
> When do you stop being a Damn Yankee and become a Rebel?
Rich,
Thanks for the info, that was actually pretty informative. I'd have never
guessed what cinders were if you wouldn't have explained it. I kinda
thought that they were partially burned something.... Doesn't it adversly
effect wear on your tires with the possiblilty ofhaving small chinks of slag
and such in there? Oh, and I don't think you ever become a rebel. You have
to be born a rebel......
-- -Josh 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L
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