As part of their physics investigation of small engines our Year 7 science students visited the South Western District Restoration Group’s rally ground in Cobden. Adam Edge explained that the Club had over 130 members and that the Club’s aim was to foster interest in the restitution and restoration of steam or oil engines and other vintage articles. Club members generously showed students through sheds which included a 1908 vintage steam engine, a vertical fire tube boiler and a working scale model of a steam engine. Adam described the mechanism and force that drove a Fence Master post borer which was powered by a 1960’s Landrover and was used in paddocks to replace crank hand-powered post borers. Students examined a reducer gas unit which produced goal gas for a Crossley engine and they learnt about the workings of a Ruston Hornsby oil engine produced in 1920 that would have driven a large generator which supplied power for homesteads, cottages and buildings at Coleraine. Other agricultural equipment included a demonstration model Eclipse Milker and a wire tie hay baler that was towed to piles of hay in a paddock, then hay was pitched forked into the hopper where the bales were formed and the operator tied them off. Students also visited the Cistern Chapel which is nothing like the Sistine Chapel!! Thanks Adam, Peter, Steve, Ian, Neil, Russell and Barrie you’ve really made forces and physics come alive, we are really looking forward to our workshop at TAP’s On! Comments are closed.
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