# @stauglighthouse on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C33a1B8uhNO
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11312657-stauglighthouse-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/7c98852651.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-02-27T21:24:48.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** St. Augustine Lighthouse & MM (@stauglighthouse) — https://gondola.cc/stauglighthouse

## Caption

HISTORIC PRESERVATION! Ongoing maintenance continues in the St. Augustine Lighthouse. This photo shows painting of the Weight Well. 

What is the Weight Well? Today, an electric motor turns the 2-ton, first order Fresnel lens at the top of the Lighthouse. Before 1936, the rotation of the lens was accomplished with a clockwork mechanism. It consisted of a large 270-pound weigh in the bottom of the tower attached by a cable to the top by a cable. At the top, the cable wrapped around a metal drum. The keeper would crank this drum and raise the weight as the cable wrapped around the drum. When the weight fell, it rotated the drum, which turned gears that turned the lens.

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lens, museum, nonprofit, hostoricpreservation, staugustine, history, saintaugustine, fresnellens, staugustinelighthouse, lighthouse

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