A tempting Stirling

[Ian S C]

I'v never used castings for my Stirling Engines, none of them are models of other , larger motors.  One of them is roughly based on one of James G. Rizzo's motors, from vol 1 "The Stirling Engine Manual", another is a fairly close version of one that featured in "Model Engineer", it had been a winner in the Gnat power completion,  the rest of my motors just sort of happen every now and then, there is one trying to materialise at the moment, an air cooled rhombic, but it's going to be a long time before much happens.
                                                     Ian S C

[fcheslop]

Jo are you sure, about coming over to the dark side
How about one of Gunters Engines Im sure the Cowell would cope
http://bettigue.blogspot.co.uk/
Or a tasty Hot Rod :lolb:or a T Ford
http://www.stirlingheteluchtmotoren.nl/#Start%20Pagina
The world is youre oyster.
http://www.manfreds-hobbypage.de/
http://www.animatedengines.com/
Just a little teaser :mischief:depends what you are looking for.
Most are very friendly and only to happy to swap ideas and drawings.
The big problem for a num skull like me is I now have to thumb through a German,French and Dutch to English dictionaries and I have dyslexia
cheers good hunting

[Stuart]

just use google translate
https://translate.google.co.uk

bung in the url in the first box and click the blue translate box on the right

Stuart

[fcheslop]

Cheers Stuart, I do you use it but some times it makes a terrible mess of it

[Allen Smithee]

Of course these engines are named for a Scottish town because they rarely contribute any useful output and are powered by the SNP's most abundant resource (hot air).

If Scotland leaves the Union then Stirling engines in the rUK will be subject to a levy on each running minute. We will be allowed to have StErling engines, which of course run much better because they have a far more solid foundation than these renegade Scotish imitations. Proper Sterling engines will be banned north of the border. They want to share our engines but we won't let them. They must either develop their own, or take a share in the Euro-engine, which is a form of engine that suffers from opposing forces from the French and German cylinders (each pulling in a different direction) whilst getting severe overheating in its greek and spanish cylinders where intake volume always exceeds exhaust volume. Scotland could try to address this by trying to grab all the oil as a coolant, but they'll only get 11% of it. This is partly because that's all they're entitled to, but mainly because we will have more warships than they have...

AS

[fcheslop]

 

[Dave Otto]

But Jo

The Essex is a cool engine and it's a full sized engine too!

I have been going to order a set of castings from Myfordboy to go with my Essex Fan.

You don't like the Denney either? there's no hope

Dave

As you have a love of castings, what about the Essex

...If you want something simpler then again Myfordboys "Stove" engine would sit nicely on your wood burner

Or you could measure up my Bohm one

No  don't like the Essex, That stove engine is clunky  The Bohm is blingy 

Jo

[Jo]

This is the Essex engine that comes up when I search under Myfordboy:



Chunky looking thing

Jo

[Nickle]

Hi Jo,

http://www.teepublishing.co.uk/books/hot-air-engines/a-practical-treatise-on-hot-air-engines/

I'm not sure if you have this book or not but it is worth a read and has a couple of examples of etws designs for Stirling engines in it. I'm not sure if the castings are available but the book itself is a good read if you like Edgar's style.

Cheers,

Nick

Edit to correct predictive text outwitting me

[Jo]

Thanks Nick  I don't have that one but I do have Rizzo's First Stirling Manual and also the two "Steam and Stirling books" (which rather lack much in the way of Stirling).

Due to  I had forgotten a friend of mine who has built some of the more interesting Stirling Engines I have seen. So if no one can tempt me  I will look to fall back on plan 2 and ask him when I see him at the next show.

Jo

[Jasonb]

I have the Westbury book and a few others if they may tempt you, think the Henrichi is in the Westbury one.

If you are just looking for an engine that will run them may I suggest a finger engine

J

[Jo]

A finger engine would be a very nice addition to the GMES display stand, especially if like Mia's engine the kids are allowed to play with it  .

So finger engine designs may also be considered 

Jo

[sco]

I was going to bring my twin finger engine to the next MEM meet.

Simon.

[Ian S C]

When you click on the web site mentioned by Nickle, go down the list on the left hand side of the site, until you get to Stirling Engines, there is a book by James G. Rizzo on a couple of motor models that were made by Robert Stirling (think one of the originals is in a Glasgow museum),  a build article appeared in Model Engineer,  would be a good  build although there is a bit of work with the brown stuff.
                                                 Ian S C

[Jo]

Thanks Ian, but I don't do brown stuff unless really, really cornered.

Jo