- a) I thought I had a leak,
b) the trackbed had sunk slightly beside it owing to mouse excavations,
c) I wanted to create a mill stream / race for the water mill
Rik
Hi GrantLNR wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 3:06 am Must echo what others have said Rik, and I sympathize with your leak problem as I have the same. I just love the overgrown trackwork to the right of the stream. I imagine you would be building an undershot style of wheel for your mill. Getting mine to turn slowly and steadily took some thought. I have a large gear wheel and a square wooden box attached to the shaft inside the millhouse. The box has four holes in the sides and has about 8 small hardwood blocks rattling around inside and provides a nice chunky wooden gear type noise as the wheel rotates.
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I later added the small battens inside the box as shown, as it caused the blocks to tumble to a greater extent.
Just something for you to ponder.
Grant.
Another possibility, Tom. Looks like I need to do some experimentingtom_tom_go wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2017 12:27 pm I would love to have a water feature like that in my garden or railway.
For the wheel Rik could you not connect it to one of the ZeCar toys which would stop it spinning really fast as it has a flywheel?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kikkerland-Zec ... B000L2JVKW
You can hide the device in the building and connect the wheel to the axle.
That would be an interesting project. Be interested in seeing how it goes.markoteal wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:04 am Love the stream - with me running at 4 feet off the ground, the weight often wet stuff is always going to make doing anything meaningful with water on my line very hard work - I have recently been gifted a good length of blue water piping so I am thinking how I could get something including, maybe a waterfall behind and then under the line!
One for next year I think though
Hi Rod
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