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Peterborough, Ontario, Canada March 1, 1995 Dear Reader, Thank you for buying this book. I do hope that it will be of use to you, as it took me six long weary years to write. Actually, I look back on it as six years of great challenge and total fascination! You will find that we offer some seven principle designs, most of which I actually built and tested myself in North Pakistan, during my two year sojourn there as a Windmill Expert. None of these designs are new, by the way. None of them are my own invention. They are all very old types, tried and true. I have simply dug up the necessary material about how to make them from libraries and from old people who were there and who knew what they were talking about. You can be sure, therefore, that they will all work, as long as you stick to the general principle of each plan. Obviously, though, you are expected to take advantage of the many alternatives within each design idea. Such decisions will be up to yourself and will be made according to what materials you can find locally and what you can afford. Besides the eighty odd full page plates, or illustrations, (please click here to see a sample page) which I think cover every single practical aspect of the text, you will find theoretical and factual suggestions on such subjects as background history, model comparatives, pump making, electrical principles, storage battery lore, tower construction, site selection and feasibility guidelines, and many other fascinating subjects as well as mathematical formulas to calculate power and efficiency and some not so mathematical ways of calculating wind speed. Good luck to you! Partick Arnoldi  PENRYN FARM Windmills, P.O. Box 2223, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. K9J 7Y4 |
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