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    Quote Originally Posted by Machtool View Post
    let it be known to your management, that it was all much appreciated.
    tell Ray, getting back into that gold room, and holding that bar of gold, is probably a memory, I wont forget in a hurry.
    No problem Phil,
    I intend to go around and personally thank everyone involved. There were a couple of people who went above and beyond.

    Phil

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steamwhisperer View Post
    Today I went old book hunting and bought a book that had something interesting in it. You remember the travelling head mill, well, the book is called 'Machine Tools' and was put out by the 'Associated British Machine Tool Makers Ltd'
    This is what I found:
    Seems it is called a Vertical Slot Drilling and Keyway Cutting Machine
    Great find!

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    I would also like to register my thanks. I also had a great time.

    Many thanks,

    Jayson.

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    Many thanks from me too, Phil!
    What a great day!
    I have a completely new appreciation for the 'works' at Sovereign Hill. Must take my grandkids there one day soon.
    Joe

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jayson View Post
    I would also like to register my thanks. I also had a great time.

    Many thanks,

    Jayson.
    Quote Originally Posted by jhovel View Post
    Many thanks from me too, Phil!
    What a great day!
    I have a completely new appreciation for the 'works' at Sovereign Hill. Must take my grandkids there one day soon.
    Joe
    My pleasure Jayson and Joe,
    I had fun as well as I am normally stuck in Steam Operations and don't get to see the rest as often as I should.
    I am glad you enjoyed yourselves.

    Phil

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    Hi Phil,

    Thinking back on the day, I'm impressed by the presentations and how comprehensive and entertaining they were. The wheelwright was fascinating, I still have trouble comprehending how something seemingly so fragile could take the sort of day-in day-out punishment meted out by rattling over rough roads at speed.. those guy's knew their stuff.

    So, for all those who couldn't make it here's a small taste of what you missed..

    Here's a few pictures of the start of making a wheel hub, a hub used to take 5 hours or so with a skilled craftsman, with these machines and a good operator, you could make hundreds per day.

    The blank is sawn from a green log, and first operation is to drill a tapered hole with a shell bit, to mount the blank on a tapered mandrel.





    Drilling the hub takes only a few seconds, using the steam powered lineshaft.

    The hub is then turned using a special purpose lathe.

    Man is that thing fast, zip and the diameter is reduced in a few seconds using that veneering knife,



    I missed the opportunity to get a picture while he was turning it, but you would have to be quick.

    Harty, had more presence of mind than me and got a great action shot of the hub lathe in operation. (I hope you don't mind if I repost here) ..


    Next cut the mortises for the spokes..

    The mortising machine was a joy to behold, cam operated and lots of compound actions, a pilot hole is drilled first using the drill built into the machine, and you manually index the blank, drilling holes at each mortise location, then the mortising is fully automatic after that.

    Again, Harty has better pictures than me..



    Some sample hubs..


    We then moved on to equally impressive spoke making machines, lathes that turned elliptical profiles and tennoning machines.

    Then outside we went to watch how the hub and spokes were assembled (after 5 years of drying) and the how the steel rims were fitted.. I'll put the fitting of the steel rims in a separate post.

    I hope I've got all that correct. If any one has more pictures, mine haven't got that eye for composition that Harty has displayed...

    Regards
    Ray

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    What wonderfully evocative photos Harty. I can nearly smell the place. Beautiful work.


    BT

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anorak Bob View Post
    What wonderfully evocative photos Harty. I can nearlysmell the place. Beautiful work.


    BT
    Hi BT,

    This is my favourite Harty picture, late afternoon light though the window of the tinsmith's shop, that machine is for rolling an edge on something




    Nice work Harty, you have the touch!

    Regards
    Ray

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    That pony tail looks like a killer,all that belting floping around.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RayG View Post
    Hi BT,

    This is my favourite Harty picture, late afternoon light though the window of the tinsmith's shop, that machine is for rolling an edge on something




    Nice work Harty, you have the touch!

    Regards
    Ray
    Straight out of a National Geographic. My favourite also. I wish I'd been there.

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    Isnt that a circle cutter?Maybe it can roll edges as well?

    Stuart

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    I too would like to offer up my most heartfelt thanks to Phil and Phil for organizing a fantastic day. I would also like to thank the other members of staff we encountered who made a special day even more enjoyable.
    To get the chance to see up close the workings of such marvelous machines is an experience but to have the access all areas priveleges arranged by Phill made for a truly unique day I'll not soon forget.
    This is only the second time I've been to Sovereign Hill and its been more than twenty years since my last visit but I'll be back there soon with he kids in tow.
    I reckon it is without doubt the most authentic living museum I know of. There are plenty of places you can see old engines running but to see them not only run but do the work they were designed to do is truly rare.
    Here are some of my favourite photos from the day.
    Thanks again fellas.
    Cheers,
    Greg

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    Phil,
    Thanks for your time and for a really wonderful experience.
    Regards,
    Michael

    Quote Originally Posted by Steamwhisperer View Post
    To all the gentlemen coming to 'the hill' tomorrow, don't forget your cameras.

    Phil

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    Phil,
    Thank you for helping to form up a great experience.
    Regards,
    Michael

    Quote Originally Posted by Machtool View Post
    I’ll add to the chorus, I had a great day out, many thanks to Phil, for getting us the admission and the mine tour. I forgot to mention yesterday, let it be known to your management, that it was all much appreciated. I think we all went away, willing to tell all and sundry, it’s a great place to visit. I think that was my 4th or 5th visit, and I still found it fascinating.

    The whole day was great, but tell Ray, getting back into that gold room, and holding that bar of gold, is probably a memory, I wont forget in a hurry. I can confirm, that even with gold being so soft, you can’t score it with your thumb nail and bust a chunk off.

    We must have covered some miles, I don’t know how you old blokes went, but my back was killing me this morning.

    For those of you that didn’t get to go, make it a point to see that Morticing machine, and that whole demonstration, the form turning hub lathe is just as impressive.

    Regards Phil.

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    Phil,
    Not exactly the big take home message, but I have found myself thinking over and over about that bucket with the miners with one leg in and one out and going down in the dark at free fall speed. A strange and haunting tale..., and made more so by the relics, rusting and puzzling bits of old iron in the bone yard, and the lovely functioning ones in your care. Jeez it was good.
    Thanks for that.
    Michael

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