Thread: Gold Battery

very good Eddie, i enjoyed that your a great Model builder, i enjoy the old Machinery from the past i spent a day looking at a old sheep shering barn it must of had a place for 20 sheep on each side... all run just like the gold stamp i run across it in the middle of no where o spent alot of time just looking in places left to rot...
Gary...

I finally got to finish off the battery,but I might have over done it.

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Eddie

No ... you never overdid it ....... excellent work.

If you send me the co-ordinates, I'd like to stake a claim on the gravel in that diorama !! looks gold bearing to me ... HaaHaa

Well done .... so well done !!

cool bananas ... Greg

Originally Posted by TKO

I finally got to finish off the battery,but I might have over done it.

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Eddie

Very well done, Eddie and I still think that it could easily be in a local museum as it is built so well.
It'd help show the kids of today how hard our early pioneers worked to make a quid.
Again superb workmanship, thank you for all the extra time & effort to do the top WIP photos & build notes,
Cheers, crowie

A great Job Eddie!!!bravabrava

Now Where ya gonna keep it?

Thanks Greg,Peter and Artme,I was real lglad to get it finished and it goes tomorrow to a good home ,I can now get into this car I am restoring I hope.

Eddie

Lovely work on the model.

Eddie fantastic model. Your weathering techinques are second to none. Most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the model and the real thing! Now what is this car you speak of restoring? Bret

Fantastic work eddie, I love the detail which is indicative of the hard work you have put into it.
Just for future reference, the parts, starting from the bottom are, stamp, shoe, boss, stem, tappett and of course you have the cam and camshaft.
The generally preferred order of drop is 3 5 2 4 1 This helps when keying the cams for true authenticity.
Love your work Eddie.

Phil

This is the third time I have tried to write this post,I kave atendency to drift the hand up to that x in the top right corner ,and its all gone ,the worst part is I can't rememember exactly what I had wrote,short memory is useless,.

Thanks fellows for the nice things you said,and Phil,you are very knowledgable about these stamps I did not know the order of the drops so it was what I thought it might have been,but very interesting to now have the knowledge for the future model if there is one,,I never had aproper plan just some notes that a engineer working on the rebuild at Mytleford in Victoria gave me,I did manage to measure the stamp a while back now ,Did not want to make it like they had restored it but to make it look like it might havre been when abandoned.I thought perhaps I had over done it, but I am quite happy with the finish now and the new owner is to.

Eddie.

Nice work Eddie, it truly looks like a real one.

I've seen a few stamping batteries, big and small, including the one at Sovereign Hill many years ago. Another near Woods Point Vic, deserted and left to rot, and yet another (small one) in the foothills behind Coffs Harbour, near Coramba. I was raised by a step-father with gold fever. We spent almost all of our school holidays visiting old mining areas, panning, sluicing and so on.
All of those old memories have suddenly come flooding back.

A credit to you.

Eddie,
Mate, it is not overdone but exceptionally done.
Congratulation's on another magnificant
model. I'm with Brett, dont forget to show us the car, please

Regard's Jim.

Originally Posted by TKO

This is the third time I have tried to write this post,I kave atendency to drift the hand up to that x in the top right corner ,and its all gone ,the worst part is I can't rememember exactly what I had wrote,short memory is useless,.

Thanks fellows for the nice things you said,and Phil,you are very knowledgable about these stamps I did not know the order of the drops so it was what I thought it might have been,but very interesting to now have the knowledge for the future model if there is one,,I never had aproper plan just some notes that a engineer working on the rebuild at Mytleford in Victoria gave me,I did manage to measure the stamp a while back now ,Did not want to make it like they had restored it but to make it look like it might havre been when abandoned.I thought perhaps I had over done it, but I am quite happy with the finish now and the new owner is to.

Eddie.

Hi Eddie,
I probably should have said. I work at Sovereign Hill in Steam operations so consequently have a bit to do with the battery and engines as well as the other 1800's mining equipment. We are about to overhaul the 6 to 10 heads of our 10 head stamper battery. I entertained a foundryman today about casting new cams, stamps and shoes which means we will be producing drawings. Could come in handy for scaling purposes if you choose to tackle another battery. You are more than welcome to come and have a look should you wish and bring a tape measure if you want. We also have an operating Wilfley table, amalgamating tables and Berdan pan. A useless bit of trivia, They are called Stamper Batteries because they sounded like a battery of guns going off. This came from the Crimean war. Go figure!
As I said, a fantastic bit of work and you should be proud of it and I'm betting the new owner is as well.

Phil

Thanks again fellows,

Bret I have gone back to restoring aa car again last one was back in the eighties,just got that erg again ,this time its a Austin AS3 a30 the first chassisless body that Austin built quite a bit of rust to the usual places on that model but I have cut it all out and will replace with new metal have some photos but having trouble to get them in to the forum,all the forums seemed to have change and I just cant remember the methods But this thread is not really for this forum as it has nothing to do with wood work, I have at last managed to get a photo this is the car I am restoring,



Here it is on its side with the boot floor cut out


and the two front floors cut out


and that's all folks.

Eddie