The Long Island Antique Power Association demonstrates machinery using Factory Line Shaft technology.
By Video Journalist Waldo Cabrera
The Long Island Antique Power Association demonstrates how industries ran their machinery using Factory Line Shaft technology.
How it works is, there would be an engine, gas or steam, outside the building, and the line shaft would run the length of it. Off of that shaft, pulleys would run several different pieces of equipment.
Richard Ziembowski, from the Antique Power Association, tells us about the blowers that he is using the shaft to operate today. One of the blowers was used in Massachusetts to suck the dust out of a factory, while one would be used by a blacksmith to make nails and horseshoes. The belts on the pulleys always run toward the center of the wheels, so they will never fall off.
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