[AT] PTO-driven table saw - NOW shifter forks (LONG)

[charlie hill]

Yeah I guess that's right Bruce.  I remember that name (Hagley) but like I 
said earlier we were there for a week and went to all of the DuPont homes, 
mansions, museums, etc. plus some other stuff and I just can't remember the 
names of the places or which one was which.

It was the old DuPont powder works and it did run along a river.  I was 
thinking that the powder grinders were hydro-driven but I'm not sure.  The 
steam plant was a good ways  from machine shop, maybe a couple hundred feet 
and I don't remember if the shaft ran the distance or if the engine was 
located at the machine  shop.  To be honest I don't know if I even saw the 
steam engine.  If I did I don't remember it.

We were trying to cram too much into the days and I was the only one in the 
group that was interested in (well at least that  understood) the mechanical 
stuff so I didn't get to look it over too closely.  I do remember they had a 
carriage house that had a DuPont car sitting in it.

I agree.  If I ever find myself in Wilmington DE again I'd like to spend 
some time there poking around.

Charlie
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Subject: Re: [AT] PTO-driven table saw - NOW shifter forks (LONG)


> Charlie,
>
> Was that the Hagley Muesum?
>
> It sits along the Brandywine River in Wilmington, and has remnants of the
> waterworks which powered the powder grinders in addtion to the machine 
> shop.
>
> Up in the blacksmith area (which has a heck of a long driveshaft running 
> up
> to it to power the hammers, etc) Is where the steam engine was, as I 
> remember.
>
> There is so much to see, that I could easily spend a couple of weedends
> really digging into it all.
>
> Bruce Thompson
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