Now what did they call that kind of a VAWT?

[Norm]

If I could remember the name I could search for

it on Google...anyway I just figured on making

one using plastic bags for the triangular sails

....you know...the one where as one opens

into the wind it pulls a cord and closes it's

alternate ....Hey...what can I say? the mind's

goin' !

           Thanks Guys!

             ( :>) Norm.

[tinker]

I think it's called a Paxton mill, Dave Paxton.

I've also seen a video somewhere of one called a green mill or something like that, it was tethered on a central pole and could be set up quickly or moved easily, the generator functioned as the base.

[Norm]

  Yes...thank you it was called a Green.....? The

last part is what I'm having trouble with...

 dang ! Well maybe it'll come to me...thanks a

lot for replying....in the meantime working on

my little 8 spoked CD bladed disk.....

             ( :>) Norm.

[tinker]

http://www.greenwindmill.com/

I think this is it ;-)

[whatsnext]

Great! Yet another patented, TSR<1 drag VAWT. The world's energy crisis is solved.

/sarcasm on "10"

[Norm]

Yes Tinker...that's it thanks a whole lot! Now I

can start working on it soon as I finish a couple

of other top priority projects.

Spent all morning waiting for the wind to kick up

a little so I could try the CD disk thing...

finally about noon got about a 6mph wind...works

good now to hook it up to a pump thru the reduction gear of a wiper motor might be slow..

but it ough to have plenty of torque.

   Take care and again...thanks a lot!

             ( :>)Norm

[Norm]

Yeah mine will be run by plastic shopping bags.

....purty blue ones. ! Fun

            ( :>) Norm.

[windstuffnow]

  Norm, The patent number for that machine is 5,823,749 if you want to check it out.   Patents are sort of a builders guide and are quite informative.

.

[elvin1949]

Norm

 I like the yellow one's from the dollar store.

later

Elvin