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Hahaha. Woosh, it went right over me in my previous post. I got my parts and just did a bunch of tests. I'm ready to start designing my next engine. I think I can do this without any machining. The part I was worried about the most was getting the bearings to stick into alluminum. My uni-bit was jus...

A good book? Or THE good book? Please fill me in.

Haha, very true. I'm staying awake at night trying to figure these engines out. I wish I had a mill or a lathe, building these would be sooo much easier. Last night I found a great resource at the hobby store for bearings and brass tubes that fit snugly within each other and threaded rod to go down ...

Thank ye. I think I'm going to abandon this one and build a new one. I'm thinking about going to the hobby store to get some roller bearings. I got some ideas on how to improve this. Also I'm thinking about swtiching from a diaphragm to a normal piston. I was thinking about mixing up some graphite p...

Hey guys,

I thought I would share my first stirling engine that I got working on the weekend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaGFWCyi5-Q

My goal was just to get something that worked. It barely made it. Now I got a lot of improvements to make.

Cheers,
-Derek