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Great stuff! I love the big gear, and that massive press.

Here's a neat old store in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Austin, TX:



I found that at this site:  http://www.trailergypsies.com/Texas/Hyde%20Park.htm

Loading milk cans at Chester, VT on the HO scale NEB&W RR. Photograph by William C. Gill, Bill Gill's son
Will has prototype photos at  https://www.facebook.com/TrainsAtNight

This was posted on Google+ .. no one seems to know what it is/was .. but I think it's cool .. whatever it was

This is a photo from the video on PBS 'Ultimate Restorations' of the Wisconsin F&G 'fish car'.
Who knew that fish had their own car while we all have to travel coach. 

Quote from: 1-32 on December 21, 2014, 04:45:27 PM
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Hi Kim
What a great photo, and very inspirational for my current project. Exactly what I have been looking for when I had to paint one of my gear wheels ...



Thanks for posting it!
Peter

hi peter maybe these will be of help.
regards kim
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Quote from: 1-32 on December 22, 2014, 01:22:08 PM
hi peter maybe these will be of help.
regards kim

They will help a lot, many thanks!

Would really be interesting to know what the gear's the machinery's function with the gear was. The crane obviously served for spare part replacement of the machine.

Volker

Here's a challenge for those of you with lasers or photo etching. It also has a slight holiday theme to the fretwork that seemed appropriate for today.

Quote from: Bill Gill on December 24, 2014, 09:51:37 AM
Here's a challenge for those of you with lasers or photo etching. It also has a slight holiday theme to the fretwork that seemed appropriate for today.

Very intricate,

is some of that, the rectangles,  paper doylies applied to glass?

whatever, someone had  nimble fingers

I think somebody got a scroll saw for one Christmas and just couldn't stop cutting because it was so much fun.

Quote from: 1-32 on December 22, 2014, 01:22:08 PM
hi peter maybe these will be of help.
regards kim
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Could be the machine is either a hammer, unlikely

or a shear for chopping heavy bar or other profile

the part between the electric motor & the gear wheel

appears to be movable & has half?  a jaw bearing downwards

A big gear would be needed to apply the force to shear or maybe bend a large section

but the jaw looks the wrong shape  for bending,

the "crane" looks like a swinging 'I' beam for the chain hoist,

perhaps for loading heavy items onto the work  bed

what puzzles me is the 'funnel' shape of the guard to the bottom of the gear

as if to catch surplus lubricant

I have dismantled large machinery in the past

but not seen one like that

so an old blacksmiths shop

any idea how old

& particularly that item??

hi don.
its location is in a former railway workshop these works  very complete in there scope of work.it was called the eveleigh railway workshops.a little part has been preserved  a lot demolished and some reused as a tecknology park.this wheel was purposely built in the workshops  its use lost,love the crane bearing.
regards kim

https://flic.kr/p/odkgMV

New Zealand water tank. Has a nice look and would be great on a model RR.