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Replacing and Upgrading Turbine Gear | 10 comments (10 topical)
Re: Replacing and Upgrading Turbine Gear (3.00 / 0) (#1)
by TomW on Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 12:58:39 PM MST

Finished enough of the rigging to do a test lift with everything but the prop.




This shows the new PVC tail I am trying. Not much contrast with the overcast busy sky. Fresh squirt of paint on the head and metal boom parts, too.

Tom

Without fools, you could not look intelligent. There is no knowledge without questions.




Re: Replacing and Upgrading Turbine Gear (3.00 / 0) (#4)
by Stonebrain on Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 03:18:15 PM MST

Hi Tom,

Nice blades you got there.
I like you towers too,
Specialy the 'hybrid',four legged with a small guyed one on top.

If you make another,you should try something like this

this one is still waiting for the finish.

Some people think that eiffel made his tower to make it look fancy.But it is just economy,going as high as possible for the least material invested.

By the way,That grass represent a lot of btu's.If you want to reduce your carbon footprint you should mow it,wet it and press it for fireburning.Just an idea for if you run out of projects...

cheers,
stonebrain







Hope my pic comes over

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Re: Replacing and Upgrading Turbine Gear (3.00 / 0) (#5)
by Stonebrain on Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 03:22:00 PM MST



this should be it.

it doesn't
Sorry tom,scoop is doing it again.Maybe next time i've more luck

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Re: Replacing and Upgrading Turbine Gear (3.00 / 0) (#6)
by TomW on Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 06:56:24 PM MST

stonebrain;

Interesting approach to that tower type. Is that factory or did you "reconfigure" it?

Mine was a freebie that had got slammed by high winds and was twisted pretty bad 60 footer to start only got a enough strate material for the 20 foot height 4 leg so I did that stub trick with much too light of material but fixed it now. It is something around 32 feet now to the hub center.

Thanks for the reply and the photos.

Tom

Without fools, you could not look intelligent. There is no knowledge without questions.


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Re: Replacing and Upgrading Turbine Gear (3.00 / 0) (#8)
by Stonebrain on Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 04:32:14 PM MST

"Interesting approach to that tower type. Is that factory or did you "reconfigure" it?"

I just wanted to upgrade my small selfmade 3leg tower,I didn't plan it like that but it turned out to be the best way.I'll update my dairy about my vawt soon,with further explanations.

cheers,
stonebrain

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