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The fly weights were causing some banging and rattling when the engine was running.
This is my solution a fly ball governor. I looked at a lot of pictures and came up with this design.
It works nicely and at about the same slow running speed.


Thanks for looking
Ray
 
I love fly ball systems, I think they’re just the coolest things.
 
+1 on fly balls (insert joke here). Jay Leno did a demo of a steam engine at his garage and commented that the term "running balls out" referred to the governor balls running wide or "balls out" at top speed. Nice addition to a great running/looking engine!

Bruce
 
Yes Bruce you are right that is where the term comes from.
This is the first ball governor that I have built and now after this one I can see some improvements I could make in the future for another one.
Thanks to all for the kind comments.

Ray
 
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