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Sonny Full Member Offline DeSoto, TX Posts: 224 Gender:	Mega-thumper, running 01/19/16 at 09:02:42 20,175 cubic inch single, 125hp, 160rpm, 4100 ft-lbs torque. 40 tons. Made in 1903 to drive a sheet metal fab plant. Apparently it ran in service for 50 years. Where there's a Willie there's a Waylon... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MLkbHkxk-g
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badwolf Serious Thumper Offline Ridin' my Lil' Bagger - 153k miles so far Posts: 802 Palm Beach County, FL Gender:	Re: Mega-thumper, running Reply #1 - 01/19/16 at 11:15:59 If Suzuki built they would have used the same carb as on our Savages! Hee Hee
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Mega-thumper, running Reply #2 - 01/19/16 at 13:34:56 That's Phabluss! Just Phabluss,,I love it. And I could lay down and take a nap with that thing playing that tune. I have slept between the engines on a drilling rig. It's the least frigid place and it's close enough to not be late for making a connection. Twenty THOUSAND cubic inches. That's outside of my grasp.
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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5837 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: Mega-thumper, running Reply #3 - 01/19/16 at 13:38:31 So : Most of the 40 TONS must be FlyWheel !
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Re: Mega-thumper, running
Reply #4 - 01/19/16 at 13:48:14

This is a lot smaller - but I have always loved the Superior Sideshaft engines. This one is a 15 HP - they come in much bigger sizes and I have seen a 40 HP running. It would run much faster when it was actually doing work - for shows they slow them way down.

They do sing a soothing "lullaby" to us gearheads! Wink

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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28660 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Mega-thumper, running Reply #5 - 01/19/16 at 17:36:09 That's not gonna' fit in my frame...
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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Mega-thumper, running Reply #6 - 01/19/16 at 17:42:11 What's the spinny thingy with the balls? [Did that come out right?]
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v-pilot Senior Member Offline Loud bikes rule! Posts: 257 Rexford NY Gender:	Re: Mega-thumper, running Reply #7 - 01/19/16 at 18:02:54 Kris01 wrote on 01/19/16 at 17:42:11: What's the spinny thingy with the balls? [Did that come out right?] That would be the governor
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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Mega-thumper, running Reply #8 - 01/19/16 at 18:08:46 Do you know how it governs? I'm just trying to wrap my head around a non-electronic early 1900's governor.
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badwolf Serious Thumper Offline Ridin' my Lil' Bagger - 153k miles so far Posts: 802 Palm Beach County, FL Gender:	Re: Mega-thumper, running Reply #9 - 01/19/16 at 18:40:05 Could control the throttle, like a Briggs lawnmower engine. Some old hit or miss engines, think John Deere style, would hold one of the valves open to control the rpm.
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Re: Mega-thumper, running
Reply #10 - 01/19/16 at 19:02:44

As the RPM rises, the balls, which are actually weights, would move up and out due to centrifugal force and when they reached the fully up position, they cut spark or fuel, I don't recall which, decreasing RPM
at the full rated RPM, they would be sticking straight out from the shaft on their arms, giving us the term 'balls out' for wide open, that's all it's got
ah, it was fuel, check it out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_governor
Yes, I'm one of those kids that, on a field trip to an old machine shop (with belt driven tools run off a water wheel) had to be dragged away back to school, protesting every step ofthe way

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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Mega-thumper, running Reply #11 - 01/19/16 at 19:39:42 Thanks Art. That was very informative. I've always wondered why the term "balls out" had anything to do with speed. That would actually slow me down! Now I know!
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Re: Mega-thumper, running
Reply #12 - 01/19/16 at 19:46:32

The design of all these governors came from the Watt steam regulator. By mounting the spinning free weights on movable levers, the other end of the levers could finely operate a valve to control steam to the pistons... as rpm rises and centrifugal force pulls the balls out, the levers begin closing a valve.

It's pure genius, and one of the critical items that brought the Industrial Revolution.

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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Mega-thumper, running Reply #13 - 01/19/16 at 21:15:56 I love how a seemingly huge insurmountable problem is solved in the most simplistic way. That's pure genius!
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28660 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Mega-thumper, running Reply #14 - 01/19/16 at 21:45:32 "Balls to the walls!"....
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