How to build a windmill part 2: Parts, nuts, bolts and blades (2012)
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It has also always disappointed me that turbines in California were so constrained by wind speeds, between X and Y MPH they could turn, under or over those numbers and they feather their blades and stop. I'd like to experiement with turbines that could work in any wind that didn't physically cause them to fall down.
I was sent out to assemble a windmill one day. All the precut/predrilled angle iron was banded. There was a wooden box with the bolts, nuts and (cast) head.
When I got to the site, I opened the box, and there was a paper with instructions printed thereon.
The instructions read:
"When properly assembled, all parts will fit."
It was a puzzle.