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That's really an awesome story! What a great project.

Finished painting the sails this evening. I could just barely make out the old paint to make a template. A 16" 1940s metal port a wall made the circle. Just have to find or build the missing vane pieces and I'm away.

Mike did you get my PM if not I'm trying to locate my parts I've only found my wheel and a few parts.

Mike - That looks really nice!! I may need a copy of your template ... I had no red left.

I looked around a bit over the weekend and it looks like my tailbone, rods & spring are all out in the snow. So, a couple more weeks yet.

I couldn't find a PM from you Dan. I sent you one I have real trouble sometimes sending one.

Mister Ed. The template was easy. There were traces of the original paint left so I just measured the original. 2" each side, 4 3/8 in the middle. A piece of heavy card stock was used. I just looked around for a circle that hit the 3 points. In my case it was a old metal wheel disk, cut it out, clamped it on, traced it onto the blade with a pencil and brushed it on. It's not perfect but it's gonna be 25 feet in the air. Actually I spent way more time on it than the original guy did 100 yrs ago. I think we sometimes get a little carried away with our restorations.

LOL, thanks Mike ... exactly what I needed. I actually never noticed that they came up the side for the 2".

We lost a bunch of snow on Sat ... got 5 more inches on Sun/Mon morning, LOL. Supposed to be up in the high 30s low 40s on and off the next 10 days ... we should be losing enough snow so I cam measure parts for you.

This was me this morning. A 6ft snowbank right across the road. Not going anywhere!

Yeah I just started to loose my snow supposed to get around 5 inches today and a bunch more on Saturday. Thank God for spring.

WHAT IS ALL OF THAT WHITE STUFF ????
We dont get to see that in south Texas , only a few days in a lifetime .
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