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    Default Original water power grinding house of Solingen video.

    A video of a water powered house in Solingen Germany, from 1961, no sound, shows how the whole operation works.

    Here the link: Wipperkotten 1961

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    Martin as usual you always blow my mind with your finds
    Thank you so much for sharing
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    Holy crap that is awsome.
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    Very cool Martin! There are mills in MO that still do tours and such. Ofc, it's not steel they were grinding. But it's very cool to see how many different pulleys they had mounted in a water powered operation back in the day. I think I counted 19-25 of them mounted on a single shaft at the interior of the roof peak.
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    Wow that was fun. I really enjoyed that video. Thank you. There used to be a machine shop in my town that had a line shaft and belts, they even had there own acetylene maker. I miss going there. To night I am thinking of beg gears and pulleys, thanks again.

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    Great video.

    They had what are to me some odd ways of doing things. The one that makes me wonder the most is why he kept moving the pins on the jig from left to right hand. Either make 2 jigs or put 4 pins in one. Maybe they have their reasons that I can't see.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Martin103 View Post
    A video of a water powered house in Solingen Germany, from 1961, no sound, shows how the whole operation works.

    Here the link: Wipperkotten 1961
    you find the most interesting videos i must admit.
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    Thanks !
    Very interesting.
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    Very interesting to watch.
    Loved the safety shoes and leg guards on the big grinding wheel.

    There were some amazing looking grinding and buffing wheels there!
    Obviously skilled professionals as they all had all their fingers despite the belt changes on moving wheels.
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    That was awesome mahalo. That could have easily been the 1860's or before I wonder if it is still there now? I would have loved to hear how it sounded, I can imagine I bet it is not that loud.
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