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Water Pump powered by Water
For a full discription on how to build a ram pump see Low cost, low flow, home made hydraulic ram pump (no welding required) on my website.
I made this pump a few years ago, before I found plenty of water at a higher level, and it became redundent. It is made with 1" stock brass compression fittings, some inner tube for valves, a few nuts and bolts and some copper pipe, some of which was flattened to use for valve seats. It is held down onto some concrete embedded I-beam with exhaust pipe brackets, cushioned by inner tube. The supply pipe is 3/4", the delivery pipe 1/2" and the expansion chamber 1" diameter. There is a small amount of soldering involved. It pumped a little over 10% of the water a few dozen feet up, making it as efficient as commercial pumps. The small size works with the limited amount of water I have. The basic principle for building it came from a book, but I scaled it down, and made some changes, and avoided welding. The measurments were roughly calculated by rule of thumb: "that looks about right". In this picture the pump is disconnected from the pipes. It only cost a few GB Pounds for the bend and 'T's, the 1" pipe piece needed was recycled from a skip (dumpster).
A ram with curly horns poses for the camera at Rotorua's Agrodome, on the north island of New Zealand.
2017 Ram truck with universal Powder-coated black Gatorback offset flaps. Truck courtesy of Lethbridge Dodge.
November 2016 has finally seen some newer Matchbox batches hit the shelves of ASDA which has been a bit of a relief considering they now have exclusive rights on selling this brand or at least certainly in 1/64 form. We aren't on a par with the U.S. unfortunately which means no 1971 Nissan Skylines or Volvo V60 Wagons as of yet but it does mean plenty of these very attractive 2015 Ram 1500 models. Its a brand new casting which Matchbox have thoughtfully used its well renowned National Parks colour scheme for its debut and it looks pretty damn good for it. Technically this casting is a Police vehicle which has a basic looking roof mounted lights cast into the plastic glazing and so no doubt actual Police liveries will follow soon which is good though does restrict this modern Dodge RAM to be never used in plain civilian colours. Mint and boxed.
2018 Ram with 14" black Universal Offset Brackets with Black Wrap Ram Hozontal Gatorback Flaps. Truck courtesy of Bridge City Chrysler in Lethbridge.
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Goebel ceramic animal figure, 'Ronnie Rambler The Rapacious Ram' oder 'Walisischer Waldwidder Werner Würmann' which seems to translate as 'Welsh forest ram Werner Würmann'. I spent three years in Wales, but never saw anything like this. Plenty of sheep though … This is part of a range of comic creatures.
Luego de un viaje de varias horas desde Concepción, la 2348 hace las respectivas maniobras en el patio de Rucapequén, para tomar posición al otro extremo del tren y partir rumbo a la planta de celulosa de Nueva Aldea. Día con las nubes algo traicioneras, así que este fué el resultado del momento.
A Dodge Ram 1500 at the U.S. car meet in Bremen.
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2017 Ram with universal black offset brackets and Gatorback flaps with Gunmetal plates. The truck has 12" flaps on the front and 14" on the rear. Truck courtesy of Raven Truck Accessories Edmonton North.
2017 Ram with stainless Ram Vertical Gatorback flaps. Truck courtesy of Hendry's Chrysler in Nokomis.
One of the grandest and most rewarding monuments of the ancient world, the Temple of Amun at Karnak simply cannot fail to impress with its grandeur. It is a vast complex of buildings over three main precincts, the greatest of which is that of Amun with the enormous great temple at its heart. This is the main draw for all visitors to Karnak, with its avenue of sphinxes, huge courtyards and incomparable pillared hypostyle hall. It is not only one of Egypt's most important monuments but simply one of the greatest ancient sites anywhere.
The great temple of Amun dominates the complex and is the work of successive dynasties throughout the New Kingdom, at which point the local god Amun had been established as the state god of Egypt (his name means 'the hidden one', as he only rose to prominence relatively late in Egyptian history, largely connected to the rising importance of Thebes as the centre of power, thus its local god rose with it). Some of the earliest parts at the east end date to the reign of Thutmoses I with successive sections added by other 18th & 19th Dynasty rulers, with great obelisks erected by Hatshepsut and much of the Hypostyle Hall and pylons built under Seti I and his son Ramesses II. The first courtyard and the main pylon were the latest additions to the temple under the reign of Nectanebo I and were never fully finished.
The temple is approached through and avenue of large ram-headed sphinxes, each protecting a small pharoah figure between their paws, representing the god Amun (whose sacred animal was the ram) protecting the king. These statues are usually identified as dating to the reign of Ramesses II, but it is possible they may date further back to Amenophis III. Originally this avenue stretched all the way through what is now the first courtyard to the 2nd pylon and hypostyle hall, but after construction of the 1st pylon and courtyard those beyond the new facade were stored in rows either side of the new courtyard beyond the entrance pylon.
The main facade is formed by the towering 1st pylon built under Nectanebo I and never finished, the stonework is still rough-hewn and lacking in decoration and the northern tower remains somewhat shorter than its southern neighbour. The southerrn tower has at its rear the remains of a mud-brick ramp used during construction. The courtyard beyond is vast and dotted with pillars and statues from various earlier stages in the growth of Karnak, including a towering column from a pavilion built by Nubian Pharoah Taharqa, two colossi of Ramesses II (one usurped later by Pinedjem) and more of the ram-sphinxes that once lined the approach.
Beyond the courtyard is the more ruinous 2nd pylon which leads to the most famous part of the Karnak Temple complex, the incredible Hypostyle Hall, sometimes called the 'Hall of a Hundred Columns' owing to the great multitude of thick, round columns in every direction, like a forest of enormous tree-trunks in stone. There are 134 columns in all in 16 rows, the central axis columns being taller with palm-capitals, whilst the rows either side of this carried a clerestorey of stone-latticed windows, many of which survive (originally these would have been the main light source when the hall had its roof). The decoration on the columns and side walls dates mostly to the reign of Ramesses II and is in sunken relief, but some earlier work from Seti I's reign in raised-relief can be seen on the north side.
Continuing along the main eastern axis the great temple becomes more ruinous and harder to follow, but several major features stand out such as the obelisk of Hatshepsut and the much later barque shrine, whilst some distance beyond the festival hall of Thutmosis III, a pillared structure that represents the most substantial remaining part of the eastern sections of the temple and retains some coloured decoration inside.
In addition to the main eastern axis of the temple there is the southern axis that is formed of four courtyards and further pylon towers and gates which extend towards the precinct of Amun's consort Mut (a much more ruined site reached by equally ruined sphinx avenues to the south, one of which also connects with that leading to Luxor Temple a mile or so further on).. These sections of the complex are mostly closed to visitors at present with stabilisation works ongoing.
There are further smaller temples and areas of great interest around the huge Karnak site, which we have visited on a previous trip (we once spent an entire day here in the pre-digital 1990s), but sadly time was limited on this occasion to focusing on the major sections of the great temple itself, so we hope to return to spend longer here another time.