27 Sep
2010
27 Sep
'10
11:14 a.m.
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Charlie Carothers wrote:
I suppose there are some advantages to having been
born in 1938. :-) I
still think the Erector set I got for Christmas when I was about 10 was
about the best present I ever got from my parents. After they passed
away in 99, when I was cleaning out one of their storage buildings I
rescued it, and I still have what was left of it out in my garage. The
last thing I built with it (a windmill) is out there too. With the
little electric motor on the base driving it I'm sure those unprotected
Lots of opportunity for minor finger damage in that open gearbox!
That was the blue mains powered motor with the attached red frame holding
a bunch of gears on shafts that could be slid back and forth to enagage?
What kinda motor drives the blades of commercial windmills, such as
Altamont or Tehachapi?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com