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madjackghengis:
That's quite a good looking governor arrangement you've got made, it looks very sturdy and workman like. I'll have to file that one away for future use. Looking forward to the build as well, I've got a handful of solenoids with nothing to do with them, so they would be useful for something after all. That governor looks very fine indeed :bow: :jaw: mad jack

CallMeAl:
Thanks all for the comments on the governor. Yes, I am just building to see if I can make it work and I wanted to make something different and because I have the stuff laying around to do it. :D

Here is a small version of a solenoid engine I found on the net. The one I am attempting to build will be about 4 times the size!

I bored out the end of the solenoid tube end to get the floating piston that was inside:

Temporally added a rod. I don't have to worry about sealing the cylinder and actually the slits in the piston are a good thing since I do not want any compression at all!

I cut some 2.5 inch x 1/2" discs for the crank counter weights, pasted a full size pattern on one, bolted the two together, and whittled away till I had this result:

Next is the pattern for the base casting. Can't do to much more till I get that poured. I also need to figure out the governor cut out switch and the timing actuator and switch.

raynerd:
Nice work, like the governor video!

madjackghengis:
Well Al, that picture is about what I had in my mind, and my immediate thought was finding sufficient solenoids to make up a V-8 or V-12, and have a nice "distributer" to apply power to all the solenoids in turn, just to hear it run. I remember building a solenoid engine as a project out of an old boy's project book from the thirties, when I was a boy, it was a fascination for everyone who saw it. I'm looking forward to seeing this one, with a governor. mad jack

CallMeAl:
Thanks craynerd for the comment.

Mad Jack: Wow a V-8, that would be sight to behold and I can't image what it would sound like, fairly quiet I would think except for the spark arcs snapping on the distributor!

I got a start on the engine base. It still needs a lot of clean up a coating of paint.

It's not in the same league as Rob Wilson's beautiful patterns, but it should pour OK. I'm still learning how cast items and every pour is a new adventure!

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