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The Showcase => Engines => Topic started by: bent on June 25, 2018, 05:57:07 PM

Title: Stirling "bobber" ala Jan Ridders
Post by: bent on June 25, 2018, 05:57:07 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i_aQ742S_g

Build log in the "from plans" section.

Title: Re: Stirling "bobber" ala Jan Ridders
Post by: b.lindsey on June 25, 2018, 06:44:59 PM

Amazingly smooth even at that slow speed!! Very nice!!!

Bill

Title: Re: Stirling "bobber" ala Jan Ridders
Post by: bent on June 25, 2018, 07:21:39 PM

Thanks Bill!  Yeah, I like how it runs.  Went for about 10 minutes last night on about 1/3 fill of the little alky cup.

Title: Re: Stirling "bobber" ala Jan Ridders
Post by: gary.a.ayres on November 02, 2021, 09:23:37 AM

Intriguing little engine!

Title: Re: Stirling "bobber" ala Jan Ridders
Post by: bent on November 02, 2021, 08:16:17 PM

Thanks Gary.  I have it sitting atop the liquor cabinet at home, though it needs to move again before the holidays.  We've been painting rooms and refinishing furniture, now that the furniture wreckers boys are back in college and we have the house to ourselves again for a little while.  I hope to have some shop time soon (maybe finish up my stove fan Stirling?), but work has been piling on lately, you'd not think there was an epidemic...except for certain critical suppliers for whom we (I) have to design workarounds...sigh.