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Re: A mill?
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Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:52:03 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> Following Eric's suit, I'm thinking of building a mill for the town...
> Actually, I'm just planning on building another larger building. My problem
> with building houses is that after building 7 houses (5 in white w/ black
> trim), I've nearly RUN OUT of 1x1 black bricks!!! (yes, the impossible has
> happened! Each house uses over 70, so roughly 370 total used so far) I've • still
> got a bunch left, but not enough to do another large structure completely.
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> So what I was thinking is building something half timbered and half stone... • So
> my first thought was a mill... But that led me to wonder, what in the world
> does a mill LOOK like? Can someone point me at some pictures or perhaps • provide
> some advice? Maybe it shouldn't be a mill, but another type of building? Ideas
> anyone?
Hi Dave,
I've seen a few water-powered mills in my life. I'm trying to remember (one
doesn't often remember second-grade field trips :-) what they looked like and
how they worked. Would you want them to be fully functional?
As Shaun pointed out, there are wind-powered mills too - they really look
better than water mills :-)
The water mills might've had the big wheel, but that would only be functional
near bigger rivers (IIRC). Sometimes the mills would've channeled the smaller
streams to make a waterfall in order to get more power. I don't really
remember this part, but somehow the water would spin a wheel :-) and then the
wheel would be connected by axles to two grinding wheels, between which the
wheat would be grinded.
<sigh> Those trips always seemed useless - guess I should've paid closer
attention! Who would've thought? ;-)
HTH,
Shiri
Just look at this! It involves lego, I promise ;-)
www.geocities.com/shiri_lego
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| (...) Ideas (...) You know what would make GREAT looking 'water' going over the wheel at your mill? Those new clear blue cylinders in the Gungan set. Just a thought, Kevin (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| There are a couple of samples of medieval engineering in Idea Book 250, here and following pages: (URL) simple, but a place to start. Since I saw this, I've been fooling around with a way to make a big wheel (maybe 8-12 studs across) that would turn (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| Following Eric's suit, I'm thinking of building a mill for the town... Actually, I'm just planning on building another larger building. My problem with building houses is that after building 7 houses (5 in white w/ black trim), I've nearly RUN OUT (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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