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Balls to the wall, balls out......there's a lot of steam engine reference in daily use.

That's running very nicely Gil.

I wonder why they are factory made to run so fast?

Balls to the wall comes from pilots pushing the throttle, with a ball for a handle all the way to the panel/dash.

I’m assuming they come factory as fast runners because it’s easier to mass produce them quickly and make them runners at that speed instead of fine tuning them individually. What would Gil, Doug, Bruce and the rest have to do if they came factory as slow runners?