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How appropriate! The can on the right is smaller.Seriously though...happy for the pic. Looking good.At some point you'll need a pic of the real thing behind the model. That would really tell the tale of the work you're doing.
Nice. Thanks. I don't think I'd seen the one of the building.
"i have been thinking about the beam since 2 October 2014"Those sleepless nights have paid off!
ahh, good old ejector pumps. got to be the only pump still made that sounds like a steam engine!an ingenious design but I never really got on with them, too noisy and overly complicated. the ones iv worked on looked like a large compressor tank but actually had a wall in the middle separating it into 2 tanks, one for vacuum and the other for compression. you suck up the sewage into the vacuum chamber whilst filling the compression chamber then when both are full you dump the compressed gasses back into the vacuum tank forcing the sewage back out and up the line.we were always getting blockages in to non return valves thus sending the sewage back into the well! either that or the float valves would fall off and the compressor would suck up liquids. also very very prone to fatting up as they worked so slowly and in pulses.Hi Bertie, thanks for the info i shall have to look into this a bit more to try and understand exactly how it works with this set up. The Beeleigh engine in Maldon is open for the working team on Tuesdays after 1,30 pm , and the Beeleigh Mill Restoration Group have a website on the web for other info. thanks for the info and have more pis of the Trowse engine showing the ground plans and other aspects of the engine. These drawings are held in the County Hall archive section.