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To run mine I either sit it on a small bowl of boiling water, or(and more often)I sit it on top of a pot while cooking my lunch. Boiling water is as hot as I have tried, any hotter endangers the foam displacer, I suppose one of those little tea candles would be OK, but if you don't need fire,why us...

Hi Its not a stirling or steam engine,its a ressonant waterjet. The princip is also used in pulsjetmotors. If you like to make a simple putt putt see this:http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/boat/makeBoat4_07.htm Jan This link describes a nice all-metal soldered putt putt - no glue in sight - and withou...

Stirling engines use a closed system that heats and cools the working fluid, so a pot pot boats isn't a Stirling.
They are fun though, I remember having a tiny little one, only a few inches long made out of tin that ran around the bathtub.

you could make the crank webs out of flat metal, say 1/4" thick, drilledin pairs the diameter of the shaft. Feed the long shaftright throughan the crank pinwith the bearing in place, and maybe the conrod to. Loctite the shaft as is, and when cured saw the bit out of the main shaft between the ...

Andr indicates the metric way to separate the units to the decimals with the comma (,) normally in the States in used the point (.). The use of the comma or point (radix) depends on the country, the comma is not used in all metric countries. For example, metric Australia uses the decimal point See....

This link has a 9kW Stirling, but it is designed for solar-power, and probably weighs a lot.

http://www.cleanergyindustries.com/index.html

I saw the motor in 2002 at the Hannover Messe (Trade Fair). A picture from the brochure
is attached.

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