September Photo Challenge - Entries (Post them here)

[Photo Challenge]

The topic this month is: "Mechanical and/or Industrial".

Anything to do with mechanical and/or industrial subjects.

This thread is only for posting your entries and any comments you'd like to make about your own photo.
If you would like to comment on other entries please use the comments thread.
As usual, one entry per person and the image must be your own work.
Normal forum rules and image size applies.

The image doesn't necessarily have to have been taken this month but we do encourage you to go out and enjoy the challenge.

The winner of the poll, which will be run at the end of the month, will get to choose next month's topic.

Good luck and good shooting.

[supernova1965 (Warren)]

This pic is of the innards of my 1890 to 1910 clock that is the best I can do with the date.

[sheeny (Al)]

This is a panorama of 4 portrait shots, reprocessed for the comp. I have 9 shots in the original panorama but it loses too much detail to post on web.

Al.

[Mark_Heli (Mark)]

Model of an early electric engine designed by Paul Gustave Froment in the mid 1800's.

[zardos123 (Brad)]

kitchner poppet head hasn't been used for fifty years, its a giant air pump around ten stories high for an old underground mine also had an elevator built in

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Coathanger guts.

[dj gravelrash (Dino)]

[suma126 (Shane)]

steam train work shop

[bartman (Bart)]

A shot of a work mate cutting some pipe when I worked on Varanus Island.
Cheers
Bartman

[bloodhound31]

Running up and down the stairs on the outsides of buildings I turned around and saw an elevator...

[Rick Petrie]

A 19th century 'Mechanical Wine Bottling Device' taken on recent Mudgee trip. (hic...)

[gary]

The 3.8m Anglo Australian Telescope Two Degree Field (2dF) instrument can
acquire the spectra of 400 objects simultaneously and was used to complete a
redshift survey of 250,000 galaxies. Whilst one set of spectra are being
acquired at one end of the instrument, a robotic positioner prepares the
placement of optical fibers at the other end for the next set of observations.
When acquisition of one field is complete, the instrument has an automated tumbler
that allows it to rotate itself so the next acquisition can begin.

When built in Sydney the 1990's, it was the most complex instrument that had ever been
attached to a telescope.

The User Manual is available online here at the AAO web site -
http://www.aao.gov.au/2df/2df_old/ma...df_manual.html

[jenchris (Jennifer)]

My Dog inspects pretty pipes for recycling

[koputai (Jason)]

This bridge crosses the Kicking Horse River, on the old alignment of the Canadian Pacific Railway up the 'Big Hill' at Kicking Horse Pass near the town of Field in British Columbia.

The railway was realigned in 1909 to lower the grade, and this bridge was bypassed. The line now goes through the famous 'Spiral Tunnels', which were a sight to see but very hard to photograph!

Cheers,
Jason.