Spinnekop #14: Waterloop, wachtdeur en dekplanken

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This is part 14 in a 37 part series: Spinnekop

  1. Preparations
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  1. Veldkruisen en regels
  2. Waterloop, wachtdeur en dekplanken
  3. Stoelbalk en wervel
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The Water that is pumped by the mill has a exit called "waterloop". It houses a door to keep the water on the high side of the mill out (like a horizontal sluice door). Otherwise the water would run back into the polder and that's something we do not want. On top of the waterloop there's decking so you can walk on it.




Making the "waterloop"


Starting with 3.6 mm thick lumber


Cutting it to size


Adding metal strips to make the hinges from


Soldering the hinges in place


a closed door.


Because gluing end grain to end grain is not a good idea I made some dovetail mortises to connect the parts together



Assembled together



Gluing the decking together with some spacer between the planks



The end result

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