An
E20R in the body powered the sails, the fantail and the tail-ladder wheels,
the latter via an auto-reversing gearbox.
The mill body turned on a "heel post" bearing - the post passed through the roof of the "house" resting on a ball at the bottom. Lateral thrust was resisted by rubber rings on 1" pulleys running round the inside of a 5½" Circular Girder fixed to the roof.
The sails were fixed to a bevel gear held in a socket coupling on the end of the windshaft.
The picture on the right shows Saxtead Mill "and family" - ever-decreasing scale replicas of itself.
Builder's comment: My first attempt at a scale model. Bert Love liked it!