Goold Shapley & Muir, New Ideal Power Mill

[Peter vk]

I got this 16 foot Power Mill home the other day, it's missing some parts but it's in pretty good condition.
Included in the deal was:
16 foot wheel
5 sections of a 14 foot Ideal wheel
12 foot Aermotor wheel
16 foot New Ideal tail
14 foot New Ideal tail
14 foot Ideal tail
and some shafts

[Windcatcher530 Dan]

Very nice Peter was that mill stored in a barn, no rust!

[PaulV]

Wow, nice find!

[CTXmiller]

Impressive find

[mtblah]

If the new project turns out as nice as your other mills it REALLY will be outstanding , nice find .

[Wayne]

WOW1 What a gold mine.

[windybob]

Was wondering about the ratio of the wheel turning vs the drive line rotation. I always wondered if the driveline turns faster than the wheel, or slower? Guess it needs power, but doesn't it also need speed?

[Peter vk]

Was wondering about the ratio of the wheel turning vs the drive line rotation. I always wondered if the driveline turns faster than the wheel, or slower? Guess it needs power, but doesn't it also need speed?

I'm not sure yet about this one, but my other two Ideals that I have are 1 revolution of the wheel equals to 6 revolutions of the vertical shaft.

[Peter vk]

Very nice Peter was that mill stored in a barn, no rust!

It's totally seized up so it was probably outside all of its life

[windybob]

Thanks. That's much different than I would have thought.