Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

Oh yeah, I read somewhere that they as in Comet still use wood bearings like Lignum Vitae. Old ships use to use Lignum wood for prop bearings.

A thread on this forum had a topic about Australian windmills, and furling was brought up. This led me to start checking out some Australian windmills, and I found the Comet brand Australian made windmills.

If you’ve never looked into them, they seem to be pretty cool and the way that they oil and ...

I hope you found the info you’re looking for by now, but this thread got me looking up pics of Australian made windmills. Something I noticed is the Comet mills mast pipe is center to the shaft and they have no side secondary side vane. How in the world do they turn out of the wind?

I know this thread is a few years old, but I’m pretty sure if soak your wood bearings in oil while under vacuum it will greatly increase your oil penetration. I’ve read that is how they get the oil in oilite bushings and the chemicals in treated poles.

Something that comes to mind is possibly for ...

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I can’t say for sure the only one I ever saw was in pieces and I didn’t know what I was looking at at the time. I’ve got a parts list somewhere I think I can look at that if I can find it.

Excellent work & great pics!!! The Parish is an interesting mill with some outside the box design. I wonder when I see them if Parish would have come up with a halfway cover of sorts for the back would the sprockets & chain had an easier life with a little rain break or dust shield.

If you do this do not use stainless as the anode or the cathode. Under the right circumstances some say it’s possible to create hexavalent chromium which is bad stuff.

Excellent!

Bryan that’s what I was wondering. Best I can see is when the tell flips on its side the brake is applied. I think they all had a side sail to assist in the turning out of the wind. It would be very interesting to see a video of one of these doing it’s thing.

Well good luck & thanks for your pics. When you get it all in order please post lots of pics!