{"id":505,"date":"2011-12-05T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covertcabin.com\/victorian-gentlemans-turbine\/"},"modified":"2017-03-28T11:47:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T09:47:27","slug":"victorian-gentlemans-turbine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covertcabin.com\/fr\/victorian-gentlemans-turbine\/","title":{"rendered":"A Victorian Gentleman&rsquo;s Turbine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/covertcabin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1010271.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/>One of the jobs on Bob&rsquo;s spectacularly long &lsquo;to do&rsquo; list has been to upgrade our water turbine at <a href=\"fishermans-cabin\/\">Fisherman&rsquo;s cabin<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s shortcoming was, that to turn it on and off, you had to&nbsp;sort of absail down the 12ft bank, avoid the alarmingly large hornets who chose this spot for their ill-placed nest, hack through&nbsp;tangly brambles and undergrowth and then wade into the stream&nbsp;in order to&nbsp;adjust the valve.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Going to &lsquo;adjust the turbine valve&rsquo; became to us a major undertaking, like &lsquo;finding the longitude&rsquo; or the source of the Nile. &nbsp;Bob&rsquo;s long held dream has been to have an open\/closing valve operated by a switch in the cabin and this he as now fullfilled. He fitted a &lsquo;rack and pinion&rsquo; device which is powered by a 12v motor, which pushes an arm to open and close the valve.&nbsp;( I type these words with&nbsp;only the sketchiest of&nbsp;knowledge of how it actually works). He cannibalised these parts from a defunct running machine which was purchased on Ebay for \u00a35.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>He has also redesigned the blades and built a new housing &#8211; this last, for reasons best known to him, is in the form of a Victorian gentleman&rsquo;s&nbsp;&lsquo;davenport&rsquo; and would not look out of place being carried up river by a bearer on Dr Livingstone&rsquo;s&nbsp;own search for the source of the Nile. 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