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Homemade Steam Engine & Gold Stamper
Jim Dobson:
Homemade Steam Engine & Gold Stamper
TTB02 By the late Trevor Woolan
SwarfnStuff:
Thanks for showing, Memory lane activated as I grew up not far from mines and stampers. (Near Bendigo central Victoria Australia.)
We knew them as batterys, guess because the really battered the rocks into fine sand.
I cannot remember seeing them working up close but the noise level was horrendous.
Big memory was sitting out front of Grandma's house watching the bailing buckets going up and down just across the road. The water ran down an open drain and I recall very smelly.
Nice model to see running. Multiply the noise of the stampers by (LOTS) to imagine the real things.
John B
Jim Dobson:
--- Quote from: SwarfnStuff on June 10, 2024, 02:58:15 AM ---Thanks for showing, Memory lane activated as I grew up not far from mines and stampers. (Near Bendigo central Victoria Australia.)
We knew them as batterys, guess because the really battered the rocks into fine sand.
I cannot remember seeing them working up close but the noise level was horrendous.
Big memory was sitting out front of Grandma's house watching the bailing buckets going up and down just across the road. The water ran down an open drain and I recall very smelly.
Nice model to see running. Multiply the noise of the stampers by (LOTS) to imagine the real things.
John B
--- End quote ---
Thanks John, I've always enjoyed looking at these relics on travels through Oz.
I certainly think that the operators would have suffered hearing loss in a very short amount of time.
SwarfnStuff:
True about the hearing loss.
I worked in textiles as a dyer. One mill I was at was a vertical one. Scouring, carding, spinning weaving dyeing etc to the finished article.
A visit to the weaving room with the old Dob-cross looms where I think the noise was near the 140Db.
Loom operators basically were really good at lip reading as the shuttles were belted back and forth across the loom crashing into the thingies (Technical term :Doh:) that caught them before flinging them back to the other side.
I reckon the stampers would be WAY higher given we could hear them thumping from home, a mile or so away.
Cheers,John B
Jim Dobson:
140Db....jeez that's like having your ears next to a rifle barrel all day long!
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