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sbwhart:
OK the planes are back in the air, where did my boss want togo today that right Style mill to watch the takeoffs and landing. So snook off and took a few shots of the mill wheel, I'm afraid they are not too clear the mill wheel is under a 8 story spinning mill and you can't get clear shots of it so this is the best I could do.
This is the broken cast iron mill wheel axle shaft that had to be replaced so it gives you some scale of the thing.
The top of the wheel
The inside of the wheel its a fabricated cast iron structure with spokes.
This is the sluce gates that can be controlled from inside the mill, not sure how they controlled the speed, for spinning I guess a steady speed would be important, the water would flow at a steady rate, but the power demand would change as machines were stopped and started.
The drive went through a couple of huge gear wheel to step up the speed, sorry no pics they were down in the bowels and you could only view them through glass so couldn't get a good shot.
This is the bevel gear the vertical shaft went to the top of the building and provided power for all eight floors driving spinning muels.
Enjoy
Stew
andyf:
--- Quote from: sbwhart on April 21, 2010, 02:19:43 PM ---OK the planes are back in the air, where did my boss want togo today that right Style mill to watch the takeoffs and landing. So snook off and took a few shots of the mill wheel, I'm afraid they are not too clear the mill wheel is under a 8 story spinning mill and you can't get clear shots of it so this is the best I could do.......
This is the sluice gates that can be controlled from inside the mill, not sure how they controlled the speed, for spinning I guess a steady speed would be important, the water would flow at a steady rate, but the power demand would change as machines were stopped and started.
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Stew, the second pic in the above extract mentions a governor on the replacement wheel they found in Pately Bridge. My guess on speed control was that the governor controlled the sluice gates.
Today, I went on my usual Wednesday afternoon pilgrimage from Sale to the Coach & Four in Wilmslow to meet up with other retired colleagues, for our weekly session of setting the world to rights over a pint. I saw no planes, which is odd on Styal Road - I usually see a line of them stretching back over the Pennines as they come in to land.
Was it you in the red Peugot I nearly hit as it pulled out of the Mill driveway right in front of me? :lol: :lol:
Andy
sbwhart:
No Andy I was in a Blue Toyota (with working breaks) :D
Sorry to have missed at the pub :)
You could hear the planes taking off and landing all afternoon :scratch:
Thanks for the info on the governor.
Stew
shoey51:
lovely picture :D
AdeV:
There are some lovely pics in this thread, please keep them up. I love waterwheels, hopefully I'll eventually find a place to live which has a decent stream, or sufficient space to create a mill race at any rate.
One episode of Mark Williams' Industrial Revelations (I think, the 2nd series, aka More Industrial Revelations) shows a working waterwheel governor. If you get a chance to watch any of these programs, they're well worth it - some great machinery on display. For example, did you know that the ancestor of all computers was invented by a Frenchman - Jacquard - at the very dawn of the 19th century, to automate a job he'd hated doing as a boy?
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