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How to build a dutch model windmill
1 pdf
plans & instructions included 
language: English & Italian

In its heyday, there were over 9000 windmills in the Netherlands.
Today there are less than 1000 windmills still in exsistence.
Windmills have been used for hundreds of years, bringing together both beauty and practicality to the community.
Since ancient times man has harnessed the power of the wind to provide motive power for transportation. Likewise, the technique of grinding grain between stones to produce
flour is similary ancient and widespread. Quite where and when these two powers come together in the first windmill is still unknown, but one likely scenario suggests a Persian origin, from where (tradition has it) the knowledge spread back into Northern Europe as a result of the Crusades. (Of course wind was not the first non-human powersource applied to the task
of grinding corn- it was preceeded by both animal power and in all
probability by water power). European millwrights became higly skilled craftsmen, developing the technology to its limits, and as Europeans set off colonizing the rest of the globe, windmills spread through the world. The pinnacles of the windmill design include those built by the Dutch who used these structures extensively to pump water as well as grind flour; the British were also involved with windmill mechanical development such as “ automatic control” mechanisms over the centuries.
As steam power developped, the more tempremental power of the
wind became less economically viable, and we are left today with a tiny fraction of the elegant structures that once extracted power from the wind. These remaining windmills scattered throughout the world, are an historic and very photogenic reminder of a past technological age. 

Our 1:30 scale reproduction is a Ground sailers.
These mills are found in place where there is little or nothing to
obstruct the wind. They are built up directly at ground level.

List of materials needed:
Instruction booklet cm. 40x30
6 Printed plates cm. 70x100
10 Laser cut wooden plates mm. 3
2437 (2 plates) - 2438 (2 plates) - 2439
2440 - 2441 - 2442 (2 plates) - 2534
1 Laser cut wooden plate 2535 mm. 5
3 Laser cut wooden plates 2467-2468-2936 mm. 0,5
11 Strips mm. 10x10 (3-133) mm. 200
2 Strips mm. 2x4 (76-117-154) mm. 200
1 Strips mm. 1,5x6 (89) mm. 300
16 Strips mm. 2x2 (29-48-107-112) mm. 500
1 Strips mm. 3x3 (74) mm. 200
4 Strips mm. 5x5 (21-123-124-125) mm. 500
14 Strips mm. 1x2 (108) mm. 300
8 Strips mm. 1,5x7 (132) mm. 500
3 Strips mm. 2x8 (69) mm. 300
1 Strips mm. 2x10 (105) mm. 400
2 Strips mm 1x4 (181) mm. 500
3 Strips mm 1x3 (180) mm. 500
3 Dowel diam. mm. 10 (5-25-44) mm. 200
1 Dowel diam. mm. 6 (28) mm. 250
5 Dowel diam. mm. 3 (24-38-51) mm. 250
1 Brass dowel mm. 2 (47) (make 4 x 25mm) mm. 150
1 Nickel plated rivet (13)
4 Rivets (4946/03) (46)
1 Brass nails 4134710 mm. 10
1 Rudder wheel 4350/50 diam. mm. 50
1 Rudder cylinder 4909/01
4 Metal levers Grindstone rotor
1 Chain 4360/02 cm.25
1 Thread 1 mm 4124/10 1 mt
2 Windows acetate 2983 mm 200x150
1 Photoetched brass plate Windows
1 Photoetched brass plate Rotor of the vane
2 Printed papers Floors planking (A)
Bricks planking ( B)
Frontal decoration (D)
1 Straw roll (C) Covering

Dank aan Submariner die weer eens diep in het net gedoken is :)