Frosty Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 If you have Quicktime viewer you'll love these pics. FrostyWortley Top Forge - Panoramas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Frosty Thank You So Much!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt walker Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Really neat site. Thanks Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
habu68 Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Neat site. Another use of falling water was to compress large volumes of air for forges and blast furnaces. A trompe or hydraulic air blast used a tower like divice and a venturi to entrap air in a closed box and the water head presure provided a steady pressure. Two examples Mechanical Movements, Powers and Devices:... - Google Book Search figures 634 and 636 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Cool Habu, I wish I could see the designs better though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
habu68 Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 An old Mother Earth News article on the trompe systemhttp://www.motherearthnews.com/Alternative-Energy/1977-07-01/Harness-Hydro-Power-with-a-Trompe.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracked Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 wow!!! what a great effect!thank you ! will be telling others. and what about those sheds, great. cracked brisbane australia, cooling down finally 28 c today , need rain ,lots of rain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strine Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Wow, Y'know, when I find an interesting shed I want to look at everything, and I don't just mean the contents. The structure is often fascinating as well. The marvels of modern science eh? I felt like I was standing inside the sheds. OK I'm ready for the whole series of IFI smithys photographed this way! Tell me how to do it with my box brownie and I'll start the ball rolling. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Hello Strine it appears that you have not posted on our forums in several weeks, why not take a few moments to ask a question, help provide a solution or just engage in a conversation with another member in any one of our forums?" I didn't realise there was a time limit..."several weeks". Gee I've got library books borrowed in the sixties and the libraries aren't bugging me yet. What's the problem folks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leah Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Thanks Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Lauf adP in Germany still has a water powered smithy---including air hammers! that they run once a month for visitors---you can tour it other times. There is another place, I'd have to look it up again that has a large smithy with a a bunch of powerhammers, drop forges, screwpresses all run from water power but it is not "live" anymore just a museum. Speaking of which Hessen Park had a helve hammer that still gets used IIRC and Bad Windsheim has a shop that is used a lot when I was there in 1998--I got dragged into giving an unplanned lesson of welding up a billet to the smith---he was in his 80's but hadn't done any patternwelding and I had brought a billet and borax along with me on that trip just in case...(I needed a forge fix really badly by then...) Thomas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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