Beautifully proportioned, with the one-piece crank, turned from the solid, supported in a pair of elegantly supported bearings. Eccentric straps and sheaves are to prototypical pattern, the fish-belly connecting finely turned
Fit and finish is to an exceptionally high standard - silky smooth to turn over, the engine will run with no pressure at all showing on the workshop air line regulator - disconnecting the pipe and blowing into it proved that the engine will, indeed, run on "a breath of air" very steadily.
There's a video of it running here, taken shortly before it was spirited away home to sit on a sideboard (where it delights Mrs P).
length/inches | 14 1/2 |
width/inches | 10 |
height/inches | 17 |
cylinder material | brass |
valve type | slide |