[TheForge] Chain & Treadle Video

[Ralph E Douglass]

schade@acegroup.cc wrote:
> 
> It took a few minutes to come in my small wire but it was fun
> to watch. Thanks. The links look to me to be 3/4" stock but...
> 
> I got a small booklet some time ago named
> Chains and Chainmaking from Centaur I think. This booklet
> also has pictures from the Noah Hingley shop. It has photos
> of the making of the anchor chain for the Titanic. The links look
> to be about 3" diameter with a "cast iron stud" in each link.
> 
> I used to think that the studs made the chain stronger but learned later
> while reading the Machinerys Handbook (22nd ed.) that the studs
> were put in to "prevent the chain from kinking and catching, so that
> it will run free from chain lockers, etc.", and actually may not be as
> strong as chain without studs.
> 
> Bob

If this video clip is from the same movie as was played at the 2000
ABANA conference ( which it looks to be) almost all of the chain being
made looked to be at least 1 to 2 inch dia. Of course this was 4 years
ago and so I could be remembering wrong.

Ralph
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