Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

What’s everyone’s thoughts on material for making sails.
I’m wanting to make some 10’ sails and I’ve got tons of Galvanized 20ga.

I took some measurements off the sails I did have
My material miked at .035
8’ sail was .040
10’ sail was .050

Is there any issue with using the lighter gauge ...

Thanks for all the reply’s I’ve been tinkering around with a few different free programs on the net where I can upload the picture of the tail to the program and blow it up to the dimensions that I want then decide what size paper I want to print it off on. Haven’t printed Anything yet but slowing ...

I was driving around today and passed a few windmills one caught my eye it looked as tho there was a tractor weight attached to the pump rod just hanging there and cycling up and down as the mill spun. I had never seen this before on just a spinner mill. Is this a pretty common practice? I’m ...

I’ve got an 8’ Samson open gear I’m needing a stencil for the tail. Anyone got anything? Or any ideas on going about recreating one.

Thanks Paul it’s great to see a new site get up and started!!!