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Entrance to the compressor house, with the sea beyond.
For an account of my trip to Cornwall, with more pictures from the old mines, and lots of interest to anyone who’s watched Poldark:
The ruin of the old compressor house at Levant Mine, in thick fog. It was used to make compressed air to work the drills in the mines.
For an account of my trip to Cornwall, with more pictures from the old mines, and lots of interest to anyone who’s watched Poldark:
It was built between 1927 and 1928 as a large coking plant and is now an industrial heritage.
The larger part of the cokery gas was compressed to about 8.6 bar in the horizontal, steam-driven, two-stage and double-acting gas piston compressors, finally cleaned in the high-pressure process and fed into the long-distance gas network of Ruhrgas AG.
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With my three uploads today I've been looking at reflections in the windows of the foghorn shed at the Low Head Lighthouse in northern Tasmania. Once again we see the view behind me of the sea, sky and clouds. And through the glass we also catch a glimpse of the air compressors of this massive foghorn that can be heard 30 kilometres out to sea. But with the reflection it creates an almost surreal image in the René Magritte sense.
It was installed in 1929, and if you look closely you can see some of the fine engineering that went into producing this compressor.
The compressor house on a different day - no fog and actually plenty of sunshine. Fantastic structure.
For an account of my trip to Cornwall, with more pictures from the old mines, and lots of interest to anyone who’s watched Poldark:
Sitting on the old Habel Track, so Named for Habel-Armbruster & Larsen Flour Co., the old loading dock on the left, METX 11 sits in the sun, prepared for A2 Plant Air rescue. The record temps of last week brought the plant to its' knees, with two 100+ degree days proving to be too hot for the air compressors to deal with. Locomotive-provided air for the pneumatic plant has happened before, although this was the first time in my memory that it was done. With cooler temps and other precautions now in place, its a safe bet to think the blue GP23ECO will be hostled out of this tight spot by Monday Morning and put back to Yard and Work Train Service, per the usual.
The Crystal Mill, or the Old Mill is an 1892 wooden powerhouse located on an outcrop above the Crystal River in Crystal, Colorado, United States.
Although called a Watermill, it is more correctly denoted as a compressor station, which used a water turbine to drive an air compressor, and was originally built with a horizontal wheel. The compressed air was then used to power other machinery or tools.
The building is built on a mining claim named "Lost Horse", it fell into disuse in 1917 when the Sheep Mountain Tunnel mine closed.
I spotted the Crystal Mill while browsing in search of new rural houses to build and it caught my eye.
For the first time, I built two blocks of rocks and a waterfall made from hundreds of 1x2 trans-clear plates. Many other builders have tried their hand at this type of build so thanks for inspiring me.
The story goes that an old gold digger* accidentally discovered the now disused Crystal Mill, and immediately decided to live there isolated from the rest of the world. One day an explorer** on a small boat while sailing on the Crystall River came across the old shack...What will happen when the explorer and the gold digger meet?
*Mainly based on the CMF Prospector (Series 12), without a doubt one of my favorite Minifigs.
**Probably the explorer was part of Jhonny Thunder's Adventures team ;)
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4 stage compressor for air. Manufactured at DEMAG in the 60s. Freshly overhauled it still runs today....
I think Peter Lindbergh would have liked it.
Ilford HP5+ exposed like 1600ISO, developed in Kodak's HC110.
Mamiya645 proTL, Sekor45/2.8
50 mm diameter at the base
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This was manufactured on a 5 axis Robodrill CNC machining center.