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Author Topic: Re-Run..... Time to Clean & Run the Perkins Water Cooled Vertical Side Shaft Gas Engine Model by Gar  (Read 756 times)

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Re: Re-Run..... Time to Clean & Run the Perkins Water Cooled Vertical Side Shaft Gas Engine Model by
« on: August 30, 2020, 09:29:27 am »
What an incredibly beautiful piece of mechanical art!

So much precision is evident in the build. It looks like the governor doesn't have enough space from the side of the cylinder for the fly-balls to clear, yet it works, so there must be exactly the correct amount of space.
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