Thread: Gold Battery

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I still haven't got it right This is the gear wheel that I got from a farmer friend ,I cut the midle parts out,It did not have as many teeth as the real battery does 9 short to be exact,it was also larger than the 1/12th scale I was working in so I had to scrap the work I had done, and start again it is now 1/10th scale,a bit biger just more work,just can't fathom this picture posting,

Eddie

This is the center spider ,started,and the other pieces that are fixed to it,and then fixed to the gear wheel,the gear wheel is cast Iron and the rest of the bits are steel makes it dificult to weld with out leaving a big mess.





and the actual wheel and parts that I am hoping to make.it was all dumpt in the paddock many years ago in the Mytleford area near Bright,Victoria

Do not know what has hap end to the pics they have shrunk,any help will help.


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Eddie

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I think this is right

Eddie

It was never my intention to make this model look like it was when it was new,,the actual battery stands just off the main road in MYTLEFORD.I am hopping to make it look some thing like it was when abandoned so many years ago,the restoration of the battery in Mytleford has all new timbers and I want to make it look Old, this is the completed wheel,

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G'Day Eddie,
This one pretty darn special......lots more attention to the detail over the larger one you made.
Cheers, Crowie

My completed fabricated wheel.and the original wheel in the paddock still with the camshaft and lifters with the shaft bearings on the shaft ends,I found it a bit of a job welding the bits together
but I think it will be alright when its all painted in a rusted look,I hope.

Top effort, thanks for sharing.
Regards

This should be good!

Love the way gold batteries work.

Thanks fellows for the nice encouragement,it does help,the two pics are parts of the camshaft and the Guides for the stamp rods ,Not certain of the correct name for them, there was very little help from the people who restored the one at Myrtleford,as I think they were only working as a group to put it together if that makes sense,I know there was a engineer in the group,but he was to young to have worked on the original type,all though I might be wrong as there is one at the Sam Bass Mine on the way to Hotham, as to showing how I made the parts,I don't know how to make a Video, But there is a lot of sawing and fileing believe me.mostly cut from 1/8th steel,gives your fingers a lot of exersise oh and cramps.

Eddie.

Aha: Relocated State Battery - Meekatharra, Western Australia - Relocated Structures on Waymarking.com

Cheers,
Joe

Originally Posted by joe greiner

Aha: Relocated State Battery - Meekatharra, Western Australia - Relocated Structures on Waymarking.com

Cheers,
Joe

Wow Joe, Meekatharra is in the middle of the outback in West Australia; how do you know about the township???

Eddie, You one darn good tradesmen/craftsmen making all these little scale parts. Cheers, crowie

The camshaft ready for fixing the cam lifters and the complete camshaft with large gear wheel and the drive shaft with the driving gear.It wold be good if I could get them in the right order for a change.
The Gold battery in Weston Australia was a good find but looks so different from the one in Myrtleford, same principle for working though but has only two uprights.

Originally Posted by crowie

Wow Joe, Meekatharra is in the middle of the outback in West Australia; how do you know about the township???

Eddie, You one darn good tradesmen/craftsmen making all these little scale parts. Cheers, crowie

At first, "gold battery" made no sense whatever. But with assistance from Google [gold battery australia], I found Venus Gold Battery in Queensland, and Payne's Find in WA. Meekatharra was the only one with a picture of the apparatus itself.

Cheers,
Joe

One good looking build. I had to look up to see what it was. Watching with interest as I like old machines and there workings