Mike, 

Thanks for posting the tip on this book a couple of weeks ago.  I picked up a
worn “first edition” (woo hoo) in decent enough shape, for $16 with shipping
through Abe Books (where I noted that “very good” copies were going for $50 or
more).  The first owner had given it to a child as a present, with a note on the
flyleaf: “This is my favorite book!”  I finished reading it last weekend and
consider it an Excellent read, well worth the time.  The discussion of salvaging
the water turbine brought me back to my days nearly forty years ago of working
in a company that designed / upgraded small hydro plants.

Charlie Driggs


On Jul 31, 2014, at 7:32 PM, Michael Suwczinsky  wrote:

Mike in Sacto wrote

Are they practical?  Anybody here read John Goffe's Mill?

George Woodbury wrote the book, published in 1948.  He inherited the mill
and ended up putting it to work.  It became his sole source of income as he
invented more and different jobs for it to do.  During WW II it powered a
lathe at which he manufactured lignum vitae bearings for the Navy.

Heck of a good read.  Probly ought to be on some required reading list for
Galoots.