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Initial article text lifted from comments left by Apwoolrich at my talk page: [1] Hammermill section. ++ Lar: t/ c 19:56, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
I tried (and failed) to remove the excess white space in this article. Perhaps someone else should fix it. Thanks. Iepeulas
Cornish Stamps and Californian stamps are types of stamp mill. I think these would do much better as sections of this article. Peterkingiron 22:34, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
In the Usage section, we see "The heads normally weighed between 4 and 8 cwt[vague] each[...]" — is there a particular reason that the unit of measurement is marked with a [vague] notation linking to the manual of style? The unit of measurement, the Hundredweight (abbreviated cwt) is properly linked to the article on Hundredweight, so I am not clear if the person who added this notation was concerned about the unit of measure itself (which varies by country) or about the qualifier "normally", or the fact that a range of weights is given. Regardless, the passage doesn't seem particularly vague to me, as it describes a range of possible weights using units appropriate to the industry of application, so I propose the removal of the [vague] tag/notation unless someone can explain what would be a suitable substitute or improvement. 204.17.26.4 ( talk) 23:32, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
There's an interesting woodcut illustration of martinet stamp mills available (which I posted about at wt:MILLS#disambiguation in 22 wp:Mills articles, what follows is modified with corrections/clarifications from that):
The oldest depicted European illustration of a martinet forge-hammer is perhaps the Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus of Olaus Magnus, dated to 1565 AD. In this woodcut image, there is the scene of three martinets and a waterwheel working wood and leather bellows of the Osmund bloomery furnace.
Japanese do have Waterwheels and Mills - However for this article the Usu-link and the Interwiki-link "Kine"/杵 refers to what we would call a "Mortar & Pestle", albeit a large form - We would not term this as a "Stamp mill". 'Usu' is the Mortar and Interwiki-link"Kine"/杵 goes to the Pestle used in combination. The kanji-character for 'Usu'/臼 may be combined with other characters to make a type of Mill, however, there apparently is no Japanese article for the Karausu / 唐臼 currently. 80.5.219.60 ( talk) 10:53, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
concurring with above unsigned in "merge" comment, IMHO this article currently is too focused on stampers used for ore, leaving all other uses, well said, "orphaned". As I am embarked on an effort to improve a bit articles related to paper making, stampers are essential to understand the development and success of early European papermaking, and so far are almost unknown to WP.
Might be appropriate, at some moment, to make sections, where the ore stampers have primacy, certainly the "older brother" of them all and also the ones still widely in use, but others are suitably represented, without the article appearing to be about ore stampers...
YamaPlos talk 02:29, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
A fact from Stamp mill appeared on Wikipedia's
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Initial article text lifted from comments left by Apwoolrich at my talk page: [1] Hammermill section. ++ Lar: t/ c 19:56, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
I tried (and failed) to remove the excess white space in this article. Perhaps someone else should fix it. Thanks. Iepeulas
Cornish Stamps and Californian stamps are types of stamp mill. I think these would do much better as sections of this article. Peterkingiron 22:34, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
In the Usage section, we see "The heads normally weighed between 4 and 8 cwt[vague] each[...]" — is there a particular reason that the unit of measurement is marked with a [vague] notation linking to the manual of style? The unit of measurement, the Hundredweight (abbreviated cwt) is properly linked to the article on Hundredweight, so I am not clear if the person who added this notation was concerned about the unit of measure itself (which varies by country) or about the qualifier "normally", or the fact that a range of weights is given. Regardless, the passage doesn't seem particularly vague to me, as it describes a range of possible weights using units appropriate to the industry of application, so I propose the removal of the [vague] tag/notation unless someone can explain what would be a suitable substitute or improvement. 204.17.26.4 ( talk) 23:32, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
There's an interesting woodcut illustration of martinet stamp mills available (which I posted about at wt:MILLS#disambiguation in 22 wp:Mills articles, what follows is modified with corrections/clarifications from that):
The oldest depicted European illustration of a martinet forge-hammer is perhaps the Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus of Olaus Magnus, dated to 1565 AD. In this woodcut image, there is the scene of three martinets and a waterwheel working wood and leather bellows of the Osmund bloomery furnace.
Japanese do have Waterwheels and Mills - However for this article the Usu-link and the Interwiki-link "Kine"/杵 refers to what we would call a "Mortar & Pestle", albeit a large form - We would not term this as a "Stamp mill". 'Usu' is the Mortar and Interwiki-link"Kine"/杵 goes to the Pestle used in combination. The kanji-character for 'Usu'/臼 may be combined with other characters to make a type of Mill, however, there apparently is no Japanese article for the Karausu / 唐臼 currently. 80.5.219.60 ( talk) 10:53, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
concurring with above unsigned in "merge" comment, IMHO this article currently is too focused on stampers used for ore, leaving all other uses, well said, "orphaned". As I am embarked on an effort to improve a bit articles related to paper making, stampers are essential to understand the development and success of early European papermaking, and so far are almost unknown to WP.
Might be appropriate, at some moment, to make sections, where the ore stampers have primacy, certainly the "older brother" of them all and also the ones still widely in use, but others are suitably represented, without the article appearing to be about ore stampers...
YamaPlos talk 02:29, 25 February 2017 (UTC)