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  1. #1651
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    Hi Bob,
    Very nice work on an awkward big job, that would have taken many hours to whittle away.
    Bob

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    Quote Originally Posted by bob ward View Post

    great work Bob

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    Outstanding work Bob!

    Any chance that you photographed some of your setups and if you did, I and I'm sure others would love to see them.

    Bob.

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    Wow, I am still learning and this is just too much for me just to think how it was done! Yes photos please

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    Nice wittling. How are your hands and wrists?

    Are you going to leave the surface like it is or try to stipple it so it looks more authentic?

    Dean

  6. #1656
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    Quote Originally Posted by bob ward View Post
    ... a lot of thought went into the order in which each step was done...
    I can well imagine

    Quote Originally Posted by Anorak Bob View Post
    Any chance that you photographed some of your setups and if you did, I and I'm sure others would love to see them.
    Certainly would, and perhaps some more photos of the two parts as I can't quite visualise all of the shape.

    Michael

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    Thanks for the kind words. The job was done using the 3 jaw, 4 jaw and sacrificial faceplate in the lathe, standard vice, tilting vice and rotary table in the mill.

    I wasn't 100% sure of the order of operations when I started but I figured I would be safe roughing out the internal cavity. I corner drilled the cavity, removed most of it on the lathe and then milled the rest.





    I decided to tackle the top of the casting and the threaded hole for the radiator cap next. This is a photo of contemplating how the job was going to be fitted to the sacrificial face plate.


    Before setting up in the lathe for the radiator cap thread I needed to make a 2.25" x 16tpi gauge plug as I don't have a radiator cap to use as a gauge plug. Lacking proper thread wires to do the 3 wire thread measuring thing I used .9mm MIG wire which it turns out is just about spot on for 16tpi.


    This is 2 shots of the set up to bore and thread the radiator cap hole. Even though everything is well anchored I'm working 100mm from the face of the chuck and had some chatter while threading.



    Cleaning up the floor beneath the radiator cap.


    Contemplating the set up needed on the sacrificial face plate to bore the front opening in the casting.


    And that's it for photos unfortunately. The 2 curved features were done on the rotary table, after that there was a lot of plain milling to remove unwanted metal.

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    Great work Bob, must have taken hours to whittle the steel away.
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    Bob, a while ago you posted about cutting fillets on the shaper. Did you end up doing your fillets on there or did you go the ball nose route?

    Michael

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    I ended up using a ball nose cutter for the fillets. I had spent a bit of time working out how to cut good fillets on the shaper but in the end it was easier and more certain to do the milling and fillets in the one set up on the mill.

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    Thank you for posting the photos Bob. To me the journey is a interesting as the destination.

    Viewing the block mounted on the lathe made me yearn a touch for a bigger lathe. My little Hercus would dance across the floor like an out of balance washing machine if I tried to machine that.

    Bob.

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    Just finished off my contribution to this project. We got it and another identical one a few months ago from an estate and are at least the third owner of it, but the first owner to actually assemble it. Made in 1973 or so according to the dates on the newspapers that the bolts were wrapped up in, so it took awhile to finally get erected. 14ft fan, 35ft tower.

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    Thanks Richard for the post, I love windmills, and have seen quite a few in my outback travels. Amazing to think that you are the first to assemble this mill after more than 40 years since she was built. You may have some difficulty with any warranty claims, should you have any issues with it, hopefully there will be none to worry about.
    It amazes me when I see one which has been sadly neglected, I remember one still soldiering on with some missing blades on the fan, and lots of missing bracing on the tower, so the whole unit was wobbling around like an old drunk trying to limbo. I wouldn't have thought it would last till smoko, but in reality it had probably been deteriorating slowly for generations, but amazingly was still chugging along.
    For the benefit of any other windmill lovers, there is a great display at Toowoomba, the birthplace of countless thousands of windmills. Here is a shot of some of them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by .RC. View Post
    Just finished off my contribution to this project. We got it and another identical one a few months ago from an estate and are at least the third owner of it, but the first owner to actually assemble it. Made in 1973 or so according to the dates on the newspapers that the bolts were wrapped up in, so it took awhile to finally get erected. 14ft fan, 35ft tower.
    Hi Richard , nice job.
    Makes me wonder though, what unattended windmills in your part of the world are used for. I doubt it is to keep your feet dry, like the ones over here.....

    Peter

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ropetangler View Post
    You may have some difficulty with any warranty claims, should you have any issues with it, hopefully there will be none to worry about.
    It amazes me when I see one which has been sadly neglected, I remember one still soldiering on with some missing blades on the fan, and lots of missing bracing on the tower, so the whole unit was wobbling around like an old drunk trying to limbo. I wouldn't have thought it would last till smoko, but in reality it had probably been deteriorating slowly for generations, but amazingly was still chugging along.
    For the benefit of any other windmill lovers, there is a great display at Toowoomba, the birthplace of countless thousands of windmills. Here is a shot of some of them.
    Rob
    We actually needed a warranty claim Rob. In the tower bundle of steel that had not been unbroken since manufacture, it was missing four cross members, that was as far as we got in the photo with the half built tower, as I had to drive 150km one way to get some more. It is a pain when you are working so far from home and your workshop and things go wrong.

    The actual birthplace for the two main windmill companies was actually Rockhampton, both the Griffith family who manufactured the Southern Cross brand and Sidney Williams who manufactured the Comet brand both started operations in Rockhampton, before moving to Toowoomba and Sydney respectively.

    Quote Originally Posted by WoodBee2 View Post
    Hi Richard , nice job.
    Makes me wonder though, what unattended windmills in your part of the world are used for. I doubt it is to keep your feet dry, like the ones over here.....

    Peter
    Yes, the opposite, keeping our feet wet.

    Here is one we did about ten years ago. Hence the crappy digital photo. This one was put up pre-crane years for us, so everything was done by hand

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    Here is how it is done pre crane with a gin pole. and everything gets lifted up in pieces and assembled in-situ.

    Generally it is a two day job for proper experienced installers which we are not.

    After the tower is built levelled and cemented in the main casting goes up first.

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    Then you move the gin pole over and put on the tail

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    Then it is lift up the fan pieces, piece by piece and install.
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