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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Technical Tips, Builds, and Help => Topic started by: Maxwell on April 24, 2022, 07:13:04 pm

Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: Maxwell on April 25, 2022, 10:52:47 am

Thanks for the info mates; I will convey it with my friend, and I am sure he will appreciate your insights

Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: Adirondack Jack on April 25, 2022, 10:13:40 am

Just from examination, it appears to be most of a speed control device for a large, belt drive engine of some sort.  The flat belt would have spun the governor, lifting a now absent arm, with a plunger inside the now vacant cylinder. The round dial and index scale on the frame indicate speed, perhaps in rpm’s, or linear feet of belt in a minute?    What it’s part of is a mystery, but it apparently was plunked on a plinth for your viewing pleasure at some time in the past.

The shapes of the no longer mating bits hint at what ought to be there.

Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: txlabman on April 25, 2022, 09:09:11 am

No help from me Mike.

But, it sure is a neat looking device.

That governor is really cool.

Title: What is it?
Post by: Maxwell on April 24, 2022, 07:13:04 pm

Hi, I was visiting a collector friend today, and he showed me this item trying to get any information about. I hope someone here can help
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