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 Sandwiches.
- 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 Sandwiches are 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?
Mon-Fri 9:30am to 4pm. Volunteers are asked to work ½ or a whole day ish session within those hours.
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.