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Let’s make one of the wheels! It’s the wheel at the bottom of the spindle.  [image.png] [image.png] I made the rims on my CNC  [image.png] [imag...

The first thing to build is the base of the underpart of the windmill. It is made up of 8 pieces with lapjoints to make a octagon. It is called the...

This small mill has two doors. This is done so the housing is accessible even when the wings of the mill are turning in front of the door. [Image] ...

Next i'm going to make the gear for the screw [Image] the main part is made of elm, the arms are made of oak and the teeth are made of holm oak (...

Last part was a very simple part. Now lets make the most difficult and challenging part of this mill: the "schroef" or "vijzel". A Archimedes screw...

  After finishing “the box” containing the windmill and the ditches I added the landscape using insulation foam. (PUR)[IMG_20210730_142921.jpg]  Th...

In the previous blog a made the "onder tafelment", now I am going to make the "boven tafelment" (onder is under and boven is upper). It is located ...

This part of the mill is called "koker" and can be translated as tube. It is part of the bottom part of the windmill and allows the main drive shaf...

Having finished the "onder tafelment" and the "boven tafelment", now I will make the posts, and because the shape of the underside of this windmill...

At the top of the lower house of this windmill there is a round flat part where the top of the windmill rests on and that makes it able to smoothly...

[Image] Just some pictures of putting all the parts together [Image] Lower end of the post fitting the "onder tafelment" [Image] Top end of the ...

To support the tube (koker) and to give strength to the lower part of the windmill there are "kokerbalken" (girders?). They form a bent together wi...