The National Slate Museum, Wales, UK
- by Bernd Kronmueller
- 2018-01-25
- 7 media
- 7 available
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Water wheel power shaft entry point. Provided power to all rooms via the shaft.
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Slate cutting - all belt driven. Cutting blocks into shape before splitting them by hand.
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Small parts foundry - air pumps belt driven. They made all their tools in-house.
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Hammers, drills and air pumps.
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Big lathe and drills - again belt driven - for the axles of the wagons.
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Lathe and milling - more belts here - for the wheels of their narrow gauge railways.
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Wooden saw - belt driven - to make their own narrow gauge railways sleepers.