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Originally Posted by steeljack
Thurston Smith made the models , he worked at the Brickworks and had a workshop in the pen behind his house , did all the parts himself including the castings , I'm thinking one of the models is a "beam engine" typical of the power units used to drive the loooms in local mills . Think the last one he made was copied from the Cotton Mill on Bridge st. in Church ,
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Thats him. One of his mdels has a part of the original engine underneath the display.
He also made a model of a brick making machine, that can actually make miniature bricks, that one is supposed to be on display at the brickworks where he used to work.
He may have made a lot of the castings himself, but I don't think he could have done the cast iron ones, I tried it once, could'nt get the temperature high enough, could manage brass, aluminium and copper, but cast iron no.
I used a 5 gallon oil drum lined with fireclay for my furnace. My mother used to play ell when I cracked it up, made a hell of a racket when you got the blower going to raise the temp.
Retlaw.