1897 Benz of Mannheim

I thought I'd show you my 4hp 1897 Benz engine that I will try to finish restoring this year. I found this engine in a very sorry state in Holland. I've spent many hundreds of hours just to get it to this state!!!
Mike

thats very inpressive, you have done so much on that, i cant believe the condtion before, now look at it, well done mike

Fantastic work.

It's an absolute beauty!!

regards

Martin

Thats a great looking engine ,you should give your self a pat on the back for all the hard work you have put into it
Chris

what a beast of machinery great work

Thanks guys for the positive comments

Here are a couple more pics of some of the pieces needed. The red pattern is from the mag mounting that I had cast, this is only one pattern from about 15 made so far. The mag was VERY hard to find even in mainland europe, I found one in Holland in the end, this is the first mag ever produced starting in 1887. The new gear is hollow like the original and filled with the original river bed sand?? from the original.