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Brad

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Re: Stuart Beam Engine Governor
« on: January 06, 2022, 03:34:59 pm »
Use any size that looks good to you. I prefer to keep the aesthetics close to what is in my photos of the small beam engines at the Ford Museum. There is so much science to centrifugal motion. RPM, weight of governor balls, amount of work to be done. etc. Since a model engine governor usually does not actually govern unless the engine is run at warp speed, I choose to stick with what looks right. I run my engines at scale speed, which for a small beam engine like the Stuart, would be about 45 RPM. It is a model and I feel it should look prototypical.