On an Oil Burner.You have to remove sand used to clean tubes from smoke box which accumulated around exhaust nozzle and on bottom of smoke box where it bolted onto top of cylinder castings or it would lay there soaked in water from compressor exhaust, blower and boiler wash and corrode from soot and rust all winter when engine laid up.The sand could be reused.http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t62/NDGee/Removing%20Soot%20and%20Flue-Sand%20From%20Smoke%20Box_zpsugd3ximg.jpgUsually done every boiler wash and when engine laid up.Large electric baseboard heater left on brick floor of firebox over winter to warm boiler and dry interior.Washout plugs removed all around and WIRE mesh installed in WO holes to keep rodents out.All bright motion and piston and valve rods covered in oil or grease. Cellars removed. Wicks in Motion removed + more.If done properly, putting engine back in service much easier in Spring.Thank You.
P.S. About 3 miles East of here cinders along abandoned RoW 1 inch deep from double-headers 70 years ago B 4 Oil arrived after the War and just before the Diesels came.
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