MadModder
Gallery, Projects and General => Neat Stuff => Topic started by: John Rudd on October 28, 2009, 05:27:29 AM
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I visited a museum last weekend while waiting to see Cliff and the Shads at the MEN Arena
This is the link for the museum if you want to have a look: http://www.nmes.org/
Here's a few snaps I took ....
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A few more
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Want some more?
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Finally a shot of the workhop...(http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/Chippiejnr/mill%20engines/S8000562Medium.jpg)
They have a DS&G lathe in there and an Adcock and Shipley v. mill....
No 'elf and safety' regs apply here... :lol:
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Cheers John, that looks like a fine place to visit ........ I'll spring it upon my other half once we set off mind ............... thanks for the link and the pictures.
CC
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I should add that entry is free at the moment, volunteer workers are there usually there on Wednesdays and Sundays...If in doubt ring the secretary before setting off...
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John,
It isn't until you physically stand next to these machines do you realise what miracles the makers of them actually performed.
To make such wonders nowadays would be almost impossible to achieve, without shedloads of money, with specialist tooling and facilities. Yet they managed to do it with nothing but the basics, just ingenuity and hard work, and a little bit of luck.
Very nice indeed.
Bogs
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Lovely engines John I've whiled away a few hours in there myself alway enjoy it and always spot something that amazes me.
Thanks for showing
Stew
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Bogs's line, "To make such wonders nowadays would be almost impossible to achieve, without shedloads of money, with specialist tooling and facilities.", makes me wonder if someone had drawn it up on a 3-D cad and tried building it if it would have run the first time?
I've got several books published by Lindsay about the oil fields in the US that used steam engines. In it states that when the "mechanic" went out to fix one of those engines his most important tools were the hammer and chisel and a file to fit parts.
Sure makes you wonder how those engines ran.
Thanks for posting the pics John. Wish we had such musem's around here. Trouble is a lot of that old iron went to the scrap drive for WWII.
Bernd
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John Rudd
Thanks for posting the pictures and the link John. If it wasn't for the big ditch between here and there I would drop in and have a look first hand. At least now with the Internet we hear and see a lot more of these pieces of history then in the past. :D :D
Cheers :beer:
Don
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John, if superannuated singers ever lure you to Manchester again, you might try the Museum of Science and Industry. Numerous steam and IC engines - you can get the flavour at http://www.mosi.org.uk/explore-mosi/energy . Steam locos too, and the world's first railway station - no longer in use, though you can ride to it on a few hundred yards of track from the museum proper.
Andy
PS :offtopic: There's a nice 200-year old watering hole nearby, at the Briton's Protection :beer: . Their Grunt Gobble and ZoomCoo Pie is rather tasty.