[TheForge] My new thingamajig

[marilyn traber 011221]

Sounds to me like an experimental bread machine, that you mount and power 
with your tractor. Attach the whole thing to the 3 point hitch, power the 
beaters with the power take off, after the bread has risen, it's on its side 
above the forge area to cook. Can do your work around the farm, and have 
fresh bread so you don't need to come in for lunch ;-)

Phl..  er, Ralph, yeah, that's it ;-)



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From: Fred Zickrick <fredz72 at cableone.net>
To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 17:59:22 -0600
Subject: [TheForge] My new thingamajig

> I have no idea what I just bought.  Can any one help?  I have photos 
> that I can email to anyone.
> It was made by the Simplex Manufacturing Co. of McQueeney TX. The 
> main portion is definitely a coal forge blower. But, it has three 
> additions to the non-fan side of the gearbox. The fan housing is 
> side-mounted like later Champions rather than end-mounted like a 
> Champion 400. The three additions are: One. An extension to one of 
> the gear shafts. It has an electric drive-type pulley mounted to it. 
> Two. A crank is mounted to one of the other gear shafts. This crank 
> drives an axle that has several mixing?? arms mounted inside a 
> galvanized container. Three. An arm is mounted on the side of the 
> gearbox itself that supports a bearing that the axle referred to 
> above turns in.
> 
> On the blower intake-side of the fan box is the strangest 
> contraption of all. It's a galvanized can (looks kind of like a can 
> that would be on a seed spreader?) that held something??? that fell 
> or was drawn through an adjustable opening down into a galvanized 
> pipe. The pipe is open on one end and attached over the opening that 
> air would normally be drawn into the fan. The open end of the tube 
> has a small damper? that is about half the diameter of the tube and 
> has a series of small notches cut out of it.
> 
> The normal blow side of the fan housing has marks on it that 
> indicate it may have been attached to something.
> 
> The whole thing is mounted on a very sturdy angle iron square about 
> 30" by 30". There are two very large mounting points on opposite 
> sides with large bolts in them. The third side has a mounting point 
> that probably had a bolt through it. I haven't checked but suspect 
> they are about right to fit on a three-point hitch. But if you did 
> that the whole thing would be on its side and whatever you had in 
> the container would fall out and/or probably not feed through the opening.
> 
> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
> temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
>                                                          Benjamin 
> Franklin, 1755
> Fred & Marilyn
> fredz72 at cableone.net  
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