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I made a few changes to my walking beam Stirling based on several comments from this forum and finally got it going. Changes were: - used steel wool displacer instead of tomato paste can - replaced displacer piston bushing with bicycle spoke nipple drilled out to receive a spoke used as piston rod. ...

Many thanks for your input. I'm a woodworking science teacher whose goal here is to help high school students build this in class as part of a solar energy project, so I'm looking for a design that is doable without a machine shop or soldering iron, and using materials readily available at local har...

Hi folks - this is my first post here; I'm asking for your help in troubleshooting my version of Darryl's tin can Stirling design. Overview of DZ's Stirling.jpg power cylinder.jpg displacer rod.jpg With the power piston detached, the flywheel-beam-displacer group will make 3-4 cycles. The power pist...