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Next i'm going to make the gear for the screw [Image] the main part is made of elm, the arms are made of oak and the teeth are made of holm oak (...

Last part was a very simple part. Now lets make the most difficult and challenging part of this mill: the "schroef" or "vijzel". A Archimedes screw...

  After finishing “the box” containing the windmill and the ditches I added the landscape using insulation foam. (PUR)[IMG_20210730_142921.jpg]  Th...

I started making wheels for my two cranes and aslo this new blog. Could have published it in the crane blog but preferred a new blog because you ca...

Howdy Everybody! Hope all, who celebrate it, had a great Thanksgiving. We did. Traveled the week before to celebrate with the kids and the in laws....

In the previous blog a made the "onder tafelment", now I am going to make the "boven tafelment" (onder is under and boven is upper). It is located ...

This part of the mill is called "koker" and can be translated as tube. It is part of the bottom part of the windmill and allows the main drive shaf...

Having finished the "onder tafelment" and the "boven tafelment", now I will make the posts, and because the shape of the underside of this windmill...

At the top of the lower house of this windmill there is a round flat part where the top of the windmill rests on and that makes it able to smoothly...

[Image] Just some pictures of putting all the parts together [Image] Lower end of the post fitting the "onder tafelment" [Image] Top end of the ...

To support the tube (koker) and to give strength to the lower part of the windmill there are "kokerbalken" (girders?). They form a bent together wi...

With the posts and the girders made, its time to make the "korbelen". These knee braces help strengthen the construction of the lower part of the w...