Heritage Restoration Handicraftsman

BARN Arts and Heritage, Bromsgrove District, Engineering and other trades, Environment and Sustainability, Repair and Maintenance, The Great British Valve Project

The Great British Valve Project

Description of the role

You will be:

  • Helping to strip down large machinery.
  • Cleaning parts and painting.
  • Drinking tea.
  • Helping to make replacement parts.
  • Reassembly of machinery.
  • Eating Pizza.
  • Helping to rewire motors and control gear.
  • Tidying up.

Join our growing band of volunteers and help bring this fantastic heritage machinery back to life and manufacturing again.

What we are looking for:

  • The most important skill we are looking for is enthusiasm.
  • Knowledge of mechanics, electronics or engineering is useful but not necessary.
  • Ideally volunteers should commit to a minimum of three days/month. We know stuff gets in the way sometimes and the days you are available may change but we also need some regularity.
  • No qualifications required.

Join our growing band of volunteers and help bring this fantastic heritage centre to life and manufacturing again.

Practical Considerations

  • No expenses are available. However, tea, coffee, biscuits and pizza is provided.
  • Provide your own transport to and from the workshop.
  • Provide your own clothing and/or overalls and work shoes – you will get dirty, torn, oily – that’s part of the fun!
  • We will provide gloves, goggles and other safety equipment when required.
  • We have workshops at stoke prior in Bromsgrove, and callow hill just outside Redditch.
  • Minimum age 12 but needs to be accompanied by adult if under 18, and needs to be aware of machinery.

Any specific requirements

  • Any other additional requirements will be discussed with you and the organisation.

Where is the opportunity based?

B60 4FL, Tungsten Works, Stoke Prior

When is the opportunity available?

Volunteering days available to be discussed between you and the organisation.

About the organisation

The GBVP [Great British Valve Project] is a plan to build a working heritage factory to manufacture audio valves primarily. The machinery we will utilise wherever possible was originally built and used by Mullard and Brimar and has been rescued from a number of locations across Europe. The biggest group of machines were rescued from a yard in Serbia where they had been left for fifteen years. Most of them had not been used since the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

Interested in this role?

This is opportunity no: 55

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