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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Enfield View Post
    Notice the overhead belt drive for all the machinery.

    That's how the industrial revolution was powered.

    We have a small engineering company in our local village - I was hunting around the back of some of the buildings and came across one of the original buildings from the 1600's.

    I was talking with the owner who was explaining that the site and buildings was the original 300+ year old blacksmiths forge.
    There was a big steel shaft going thu the roof one one building, out and thru the next building.
    In one building was the original forge and a 'power hammer' that was driven by a belt driven from a pully-wheel on this shaft.

    It is interesting to see 100s of years old technology - not in use but still installed and which could be made to work.
    Mine are not the best, but they are not too bad. I can think of lots of Enfields I'd rather have but instead of constantly striving for more, sometimes it's good to be satisfied with what one has...

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