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Start Here: Stirling Engines for Beginners "Today we have ecology problems and energy problems. The world needs a clean and environmental power source. Stirling engines are able to use many kinds of fuel and achieve a high theoretical efficiency." THEN GO TO: Keveynet animation illustrates the process with Two-stroke animation or alpha configured and Single-stroke animation or beta configuration.

UNDERSTANDING STIRLING ENGINES By William Beale. This paper describes the basic Stirling engine, as well as some of the most promising modern varieties. The intent here is to familiarize people in developing countries with the engine's operation and range of applications.

Stirling Engine for Cars Students of the University of Melbourne created this page back in the 90's. Lost on the internet in 1996, we've rescued this article for our Stirling fans. "Our overall objective in investigating the use of the Stirling engine focused on its use in the automotive industry. To the uninitiated the name of the engine, Stirling, suggests an engine named after one of the all-time great racing drivers, Stirling Moss. Thus our initial thought was to investigate the engine's potential for use in a high-performance, racing-car application. However as research continued it became evident that these engines were not race engines. Rather, to achieve the aims of reduced pollution and increased efficiency, they must be used in large-scale, mass-produced numbers. "

A Compendium of Solar Dish/Stirling Technology This technology compendium, which is international in scope, presents the results of a survey on the technology status, system specifications, performance, and operation of parabolic dish solar collectors that use Stirling engines to generate electrical power. Technical information on the engines used or to be used in dish/Stirling systems is also presented. This study uses consistent terminology to document the design characteristics of dish concentrators, receivers, and Stirling engines for electric generating applications, thereby enabling comparison of dish/Stirling technologies at both a system and component level. Development status and operating experience for each system and an overview of dish/Stirling technology are also presented.

Stirling Engines: How They Work (Non Technical Terms) The Stirling Engine was named by Dr. Rolf. J. Meijer who at that time was a project manager with Philips of Holland. Philips was struggling with creating a new name to call the 'Air' engine when there was no air inside the engine. This is because in an Air engine, the air inside the engine is called the 'working gas'. If you change the 'working gas' to a gas like Helium or Hydrogen, then it can no longer be called an 'Air' engine. The name Stirling Engine was chosen in honor of the inventor of the regenerator (economizer) and the engine that demonstrated its use...

Schmidt Theory for Stirling Engines This is a famous thermodynamic theory for Stirling engines. The Schmidt theory is one of the isothermal calculation methods for Stirling engines. It is the most simple method and very useful during Stirling engine development.
This theory is based on the isothermal expansion and compression of an ideal gas. See also: Simple Performance Prediction Method for Stirling Engine [Java script] Offers a simple method which predicts a output power and engine speed of the Stirling engine. You can calculate on this page.

David Haywood University of Canterbury NZ- "Introduction to Stirling-Cycle Analysis" (PDF)

University of Ohio Course Text: 'Stirling Cycle Engine Analysis', I Urieli, D M Berchowitz. (1984) This book is out of print, however some copies are available in Alden Library. Much of the material that is in the book has been updated and placed on this web site, so that you will not need to refer to the text for this course.

Can Stirling Engine Build your own science project. You can't use it for much, but it is a good way to generate interest and learn a thing or two... See also: Let's build a Can Stirling Engine : A Can Stirling Engine , GIF format data, English version with a text and html file for a local computer, 122 kB If you had downloaded an old version of this file (no text file), please download this file, cantxte.zip (4 kB). | A Can Stirling Engine , EPS format data, English version, 99 kB

How Stuff Works: Stirling-engine The Stirling engine is a heat engine that is vastly different from the internal-combustion engine in your car. Invented by Robert Stirling in 1816, the Stirling engine has the potential to be much more efficient than a gasoline or diesel engine. But today, Stirling engines are used only in some very specialized applications, like in submarines or auxiliary power generators for yachts, where quiet operation is important. Although there hasn't been a successful mass-market application for the Stirling engine, some very high-power inventors are working on it.

SFA Stirling Engine Project This project is part of an Engineering 112 team project at Stephen F. Austin State University. This work was inspired by TheRecentPast. Here are a few movies of engines in motion. Right click and "Save Target as..." for best results.

Let's build a Model Stirling Engine 'LSE-01' This engine is a two piston type Stirling engine with a cap type heater made of stainless steel and it does not have a regenerator. Its cooling system is a natural convection cooling by air. The pistons and cylinders use medical syringes made of glass, so the engine has few leakage of the working gas and small friction. To minimize the friction loss, at most of drive parts are used ball bearings. This engine has high speed performance. It can rotate about 3000 rpm. Section of LSE-01 | Assembly Drawing of LSE-01 (1) | Assembly Drawing of LSE-01 (2) | Suggestions to Assemble LSE-01 | A Model Stirling Engine "LSE-01" , GIF format data, English version, 117 kB [ZIP]

Let's build a Model Stirling Engine 'TSE-03' You can make a model Stirling engine TSE-03 in a short time, because TSE-03 has a few parts. If you can use machine tools very well, you can make this engine about 1 hour. Section of TSE-03 | Assembly Drawing of TSE-03 | Suggestions to Assemble TSE-03 | A Model Stirling Engine "TSE-03" , GIF format data, English version, 87 kB [ZIP]

Plans for a Rotary Displacer Type Stirling Engine This rotary displacer type Stirling engine has very unique feature. I introduce the plans of the prototype engine in this site. There is more information about this engine in "View of model Stirling engines" site.

Let's build a Model Stirling Engine 'ESE-10' This engine is a two piston type Stirling engine with a cap type heater made of stainless steel and it does not have a regenerator. Its cooling system is a natural convection cooling by air. The pistons and cylinders use medical syringes made of glass, so the engine has few leakage of the working gas and small friction. To minimize the friction loss, at all of drive parts are used ball bearings. This engine has high speed performance. It can rotate about 4000 rpm. Section of ESE-10

How to cut a glass syringe & How to get a glass syringe (Used as a component for the above models)

Piglet - A Robinson look-a-like. Piglet was built from a set of commercial aluminium castings but bears little resemblance to the original design. The most obvious alteration is the greatly increased length of the air chamber and displacer to both reduce heat leakage loss and to give increased surface areas for regeneration...

Phoelix - A Stirling dyno/lighting set. The engine had logged a total of nearly 7000 hours, sometimes running for several weeks non-stop. All bearings were completely worn out (the big end had been adjusted several times) but the piston seal was still 100% and, apart from the dreadful racket, it ran (and still runs) as well as ever...

Whippet - A 5cc Gamma type Competition engine. Whippet was built for the new Class B introduced in the 1980 Hot Air Engine Competition , to be judged on power to weight ratio, and weight was eventually reduced to 11ozs - the massive looking bed is actually a very light tinplate shell...

Whigmaleerie - A yoke drive, alpha type engine. Although I had seen several Ross Yoke type engines running they had all been enclosed designs and gave no idea of the nearly straight line motions that the yoke gives to the piston rods. This engine was built to show the ingenious mechanism in operation...

Simple Stirling Engines: TEST TUBE STIRLING: Our first Stirling was our redesign of the now-common test-tube version. The parts are a Pyrex test tube, cloth tape, two jumbo paper clips, two #2 single-hole stoppers, glass or copper tubing, a piece of metal strap, a corner brace, two bolts with wing nuts, three marbles, the end off of a balloon, a base of any sort, copper-wire ball, balance-weight "washer" and an alcohol burner. AND: SIMPLE SIMON: Simple Simon uses a displacer disk made of 5/16" foam 4" in dia. and a balloon-and-cork piston. The displacer cylinder is a piece of plexiglas tube 4 & 1/2" dia., 5/8" high with 3/16" wall. The piston and displacer have a 1/4" stroke, so the crank offsets are 1/8". They are 90 degrees apart, so when the power piston is neutral, for instance, the displacer is all the way up (or down). This offset determines the direction of rotation. AND: SIMPLER SIMON: SimpleR Simon uses a flat rubber membrane instead of the balloon end inside a plastic cap, but is otherwise the same as Simple Simon. This design requires less temperature differential. The balloon-rubber power piston and steel washers are rubber-cemented (not caulked) to the aluminum base. The cork piston is rubber-cemented to the balloon membrane.

The Idaho Stirling Engine Homepage, USA Dr. Don Elger, organized three groups of ME430 students with the goal of designing, instrumenting, and modeling a Stirling engine that could be used as a teaching aid in his classes. The goal was to design the teaching aid to be “cool and observable” rather than to design for maximum efficiency. The engine ran continuously at approximately 250 revolutions per minute. The engine will be very useful as a teaching aid in the classroom. However, there is always room for future improvements. The next design iteration should focus on improving the engine’s efficiency and the ease of which it can be mathematically modeled...

How The Engine Works This page illustrates two basic designs of sterling engines, the first is the simplest form, it is a basic displacement engine the second works on the same principles but it is a little more intricate and is known as a two cylinder engine... See also: History of the Sterling Engine | Ideal Engines | Commonly Used Equations on this site.

animation This animation was developed to illustrate how the Stirling Solar Dish converts solar energy into electricity. This animation was developed for the Oak ...

(Good information to builders:) Why Aviation Needs the Stirling Engine by Darryl Phillips, main address (http://www.qrmc.com/), mirror Quote: "...This 4-part series appeared in the March 1993 through March 1994 issues of Stirling Machine World...Common four cylinder engines such as Lycoming and Continental show torque that varies from a negative 100% to a positive 350% of the nominal torque...A Stirling with the same number of cylinders and identical power has a torque variation of +/- 5%!..."

Stirling fly motor animation Animations: [1] , [2] , [3]

Israel Urieli: Stirling Engine Simple Analysis, main address, Alpha Stirlings, Beta Stirlings, Gamma Stirlings Once we have done an Ideal Adiabatic analysis on a specific Stirling engine, we would like to evaluate the heat transfer and flow-friction effects of the three heat exchangers on the performance of the engine. This will enable us to do a parametric sensitivity analysis as required for design optimization.... Pretty technical.

Peter Fette: Stirling Engine Research and Computer (simulation) Programm Development, animation, prozess, mirror (Site is in German)

Quote: "...One possibility of equalizing the regenerators loss in double acting engines is to design it as a counterflow heat exchanger as described in [1 ..."] This is where you go if you want to see/do the math...

Quote: "...This Stirling Engine with 8 cylinders is twice double acting. Its special highlight is the facility for the heat transfer from a liquid [eg. water] to the working fluid [eg. air] which results in extremely low temperature losses....Because of the nearly isothermalized heat transfer the efficiency is near carnot's ..." Another math-heavy site, but the text is fairly easy to follow.

Amitabha Mukerjee: Stirling Engine, usage, How does it work? Quote: "...As a final note a solar powered stirling engine coupled with a generator achieved a record solar-to-electric efficiency of 30%!..." I like this link better: Sterling Engine

Stirling Energy Systems Inc. - What is a Stirling Engine? Today, Stirling engines are used in some very specialized applications, like in submarines or auxiliary power generators, where quiet operation is important. Stirling engines are unique heat engines because their theoretical efficiency is nearly equal to their theoretical maximum efficiency, known as the Carnot Cycle efficiency... See also: Stirling Energy Systems Inc. - Frequently Asked Questions

Stirling Solar Dish Animation [Flash] This animation was constructed for an interactive presentation. Click on the animation to start stage one. Click on the animation again after the first stage is complete and stage two of the animation will begin. Click on the animation one more time to see the the third and final stage.

The Energy Blog- Another Major Stirling Solar Dish Facility Stirling Energy Systems (SES) announced that it has signed a contract to build a 300-900 MW dish solar facility for San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E). The power company has agreed to a contract to buy all the power produced by the 300 MW first phase of the project.

Dishing Out Real Power - Popular Science The way Robert Liden sees it, his company is simply building an odd-looking car. It’s made mostly of steel and glass, after all, and it has an engine with a radiator and a water pump. It just doesn’t have wheels, seats or a Blaupunkt...

Treehugger- Stirling Engines (Could) Rule Here’s the deal: Stirling engines make solar power far, far more efficiently than photovoltaic solar cells can. A Stirling solar dish--which behaves like a sunflower, following the sun all day and returning to a face-down position at night--directly converts solar heat into mechanical energy, which in turn turns an AC electrical generator. So, large farms of Stirling solar dishes (we’re talkin’ like 20k-dish farms here) could actually deliver cheap solar electricity—maybe even as cheap as we pay for electricity today...

EETimes.com - Sun catchers tuned to crank out the juice The last leg of a two-decades-long effort by the U.S. Energy Deaprtment to unleash superefficient solar power by 2011 is homing in on the so-called Stirling engine, which is being used to drive solar generators. DOE test site measurements suggest the setup could bring the cost of solar power on a par with traditional fossil fuels and hydroelectric sources — assuming the project engineers can balance the separate power feeds from farms of thousands of simultaneously online 25-kilowatt Stirling solar dishes... see also: The Mysteries Archives

RenewableEnergyAccess.com | 300-900 MW Solar Project Planned for ... Stirling Energy Systems' (SES) has announced a 300-900 MW solar power facility for San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) in southern California. This is the second major solar project for SES in as many months, and when complete the project will provide 30 times more solar power than all the current solar capacity in the entire San Diego region...

World's largest solar installation to use Stirling engine technology - 20-year purchase agreement between Southern California Edison and Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. will result in 20,000+ dish array covering 4,500 acres capable of generating 500 MW, more than all other U.S. solar projects combined. (PESN; Aug. 11, 2005)

Stirling Energy Systems - Developing equipment for utility-scale renewable energy power plants and distributed electrical generating systems. Their most remarkable achievement is the recent contract with Southern California Edison to install a 4,600-acre solar system that will generate 500 megawatts. (PESWiki; Aug. 11)

Sunpower Unveils 2007 Micro Co-Generation Technology - Device uses Stirling engine to efficiently use natural gas to generate heat and 1 kW of electricity. Designed for kitchen installation in Europe. Brings distributed energy concept home. (PESN; Mar. 3, 2006)

Stirling engines, invented nearly 200 years ago, are being built by North County man - Features Van Ardsell of SterlingEngine.com whose passion is to promote Stirling engine technology via educational kits. (San Diego Union-Tribune; June 1, 2004)

Could a 200-year-old engine solve today's petrol crisis? - a leading expert on the Stirling engine has claimed it could reduce petrol and diesel consumption in motor vehicles by more than half. "The problem was that it would cost a pile of money to re-tool up to build Stirling engines." (The Scottsman; June 5, 2004)

US DOE homing in on Stirling engines to boost solar efficiency - Stirling solar dish directly converts solar heat into mechanical energy, which turns an ac electrical generator. (EE Times, NY, Nov. 20, 2004)

Stirling Engine -- Simplified Plans - Collection of proof of concept designs that you can build for as little as $99. "This small-scale model situated on one boiling cup of boiling water and cooled by a cube of ice, can turn for 35 minutes." English translation of photologie.net French site, by Pure Energy Systems.

Around the World by Stirling Engine by Brent H. Van Arsdell: Probably the best general book on Stirling engines. Explains how Stirling engines work. Covers all the current power producing uses of Stirling engines along with how to contact the people who build them. Covers everything from Stirling engines in military submarines, to a Stirling engine that powers the rotisserie for an Oklahoma mechanic's barbecue.

The Kockums Stirling air independent propulsion system - Swedish submarines use Stirling engines for propulsion. In the late 1980s Kockums fitted a Stirling engine in the Royal Swedish Navy submarine Näcken. The submarine was placed in dry-dock and cut in two. A fully outfitted eight-meter AIP section was then inserted. The years of practical sea-trials that followed were extremely satisfactory and resulted in the installation of Stirling AIP systems in the new Gotland Class submarines.

STM Power - Product in the market. Download STM Clean Energy Brochure

Hubert Stierhof's Seesaw Stirling Engine - new 10/01/99: A few weeks ago, Hubert posted a message on the Stirling Engine society - USA (SESUSA) mailing list as follows: I am developing designs of that kind myself and lately I found an design (using liquid pistons) with only ONE MOVING PART and SELF STARTING in the sunlight. Based on that design I have a modified do-it-yourself-instruction I can offer to everybody interested in (for free). It can be build in half an afternoon and even if you deletantically build it - it works...

Update #2 6/19/00 Our research has led us to elliptical gears. Elliptical gears exhibit characteristics that seem quite well suited to Stirling cycle engines. If one gear is rotated at a constant speed (RPM) the other speeds up and slows down twice per revolution. An animation has been prepared to help demonstrate this. Once it has started, hold your hand or a piece of paper over the gear on the left. You will see the gear on the right is rotating at a constant rpm. Now block the gear on the right and look at the gear on the left. It will be seen to speed up and slow down. Click here to start the animation.

Build an A S A P* new 10/21/99, Revised 1/3/2000: The drawing files for this engine are quite large (approximately 1 meg each) to preserve legibility, so I have chosen not to show them on this page. The plans should print on a standard A4 or 8.5x11 sheet. They are in GIF format (our thanks to Harry Siebert for converting them from some very large jpg files), so copy them to your hard drive, then print via a draw program or viewer. *The "ASAP" the "As Simple as Possible" Stirling engine.

SE-8575 VISIBLE STERLING ENGINE This is the PDF Product manual for a commercially available coffee cup model. There are alot of cool experiment apparatus available at this site - many with free manuals or accompanying material for download.

Solar Thermal Engine Solar thermal power plants use the same kind of superheated steam as conventional oil, coal, or nuclear power plants. Unfortunately it's almost impossible to build and install a practical high temperature power plant for a single residential house. How about the low temperatures available from flat plate collectors? Can they supply enough heat to drive a solar thermal engine?

The Carnot Cycle and the Efficiency of Engines WebPhysics Server @ Mississippi State University This is kind of cool...

Global Cooling B.V. Stirling cycle coolers: The future of refrigeration.

Global Cooling Manufacturing A subsidiary of Global Cooling.

The home page of Dennis Chesters. A Goddard Space Flight Center Scientist. This site will lead you to more places than you could ever have time for!

Rider Ericsson Hot Air Pumping Engine - Stirling Cycle Engine Rider Ericsson Hot Air Pumping Engine - Stirling Cycle Engine Rider Ericsson Hot Air Pumping Engine Powering engines by the changing volume of air as it changed temperature was first envisioned by Henry Wood in his patent of 1759. His idea was to pump heated air into a large cylinder, cool the air, and let the atmosphere do the work on the inward stroke of the piston.

Antique Stationary Engines - Gasoline, Kerosene, Stirling Cycle, Tractors, Steam Antique Stationary Engines - Gasoline, Kerosene, Stirling Cycle, Tractors, Steam For SALE -- History of the Gas Engine 6 h.p. Richard Hornsby - Vaporizing Oil Engine 25 h.p. Commercial - Built in Los Angeles Lorenz - Czechoslovakian Engine 14-28 Rumely Oilpull

Aquatap - REVISED 10/02/02: A Water Cooled Ringbom Stirling Engine Patterned after Dr. James Senft's "Tapper", an air cooled engine. Ringbom Stirling engines differ from the usual kinematic Stirlings in that there is no physical linkage between the power piston and the displacer piston. Instead, the displacer rod is of a sufficiently large diameter that changes in pressure inside the engine cause the displacer to be moved between the top and bottom of the cylinder at the appropriate times...

"Blazer" revised 9/10/98: Blazer is a flame licker engine built from plans by Philip Duclos in "Projects in Metal" magazine for June, 1992. these engines have been variously called Atmospheric Engines, Vacuum Engines and Flame Suckers in addition to our title above. The engine is made mostly of aluminum, except for the piston, which is brass, and the valve mechanism, which is steel. No oil is used on the piston, because the additional friction would prevent the engine from running. Instead, graphite is used to lubricate the piston/cylinder interface...

Straight Arrow - A newly designed Flame Licker. Page revised 8/10/98: "Straight Arrow" was so named because the piston rod moves in a straight line, rather than the usual crank motion. Photo 1 "Aladdin's view" was so named because of the "magic lamp" that fires the engine. those of you with a strong home improvement bent may recognize the modified doorknob!

The "Test Tube Rhombic", is a Beta type Stirling engine whose hot end is a Pyrex test tube, and whose displacer is a cigar tube. The combination of aluminum cigar tube displacer and the clear test tube allows observers to view the internal workings of the engine, while the rhombic drive is fully exposed on top of the assembly. It was fun to make, run and watch! For the mathematically inclined, I have included 3 pages on the design of the TTR. Click here to take a look.

Breezy, A Stirling Fan - New 3/15/99: Well, actually it is three fans. I decided on triplets because we needed a demonstration Stirling for DeKalb Tech's Machine Tools Club, I wanted one for myself, and I wanted to make one for my son, who loves things mechanical as much as I do. The basic design is from Jim Senft - his "Moriya", plans of which are available from him. I modified his design somewhat. The base is similar to one made by Tim Johnson (see the Prime Report), and the blade guard is reminiscent of those used on fans from the '20's and '30's. I fire them with a miniature Bunsen Burner (that's a story for a future page) or an alcohol burner made from a doorknob.

Lil' Bit, a Half Scale LTD Stirling - New 3/15/98: Last year I built 3 Low Temperature Differential engines from Jim Senft's book of the same name. Richard had made up a few sets of the main plates in a beautiful blue anodized aluminum, and had the Plexiglas rings and piston assemblies, so I had only the miscellaneous parts to fabricate. As in the fans, one copy went to the Machine Tool Club at DeKalb Tech, another to my son and the third resides with me. But, being a chronically dissatisfied model maker, I wanted a smaller version...

Alphonse Vassallo new 2/16/99: I met Alphonse through a mutual friend, Don Isaac. We were visiting our daughter in San Francisco, and took that opportunity to call Don and arrange a visit. He in turn contacted Alphonse and Jim Symanski, and arranged for a visit with them. Alphonse drove down from San Francisco, bringing three of his Stirling engines. all three were original designs, and beautiful examples of the machinists craft...

Bill Sondagh's Engines - New 7/20/99: His twin flame licker is patterned after Richard's Dos Pyros, and the one on the left of the photo is similar to one shown in Home Shop Machinist magazine some years back. The Stirling engine on the right is Bill's BISON, which you see below in action (if you have an animation capable browser). The upper engine I will call his "Mystery Engine" pending Bill's providing more details of its design and operation...

WrenchTEN's Study of External Combustion Engines...... .......running on HOT air? (stirling engines) .....or HOT Steam? (steam engines). Lots of links for both.

Stirling Engine Home Page at National Maritime Research Institute, Japan English version is underconstructing... Many links are connected to Japanese sites yet.

Determination of Mechanism Effectiveness and Polytropic Index by James Senft, University of Wisconsin-River Falls. The paper "Analysis of the brake performance potential of Crossley-Stirling engines ", Paper # 910314, Proceedings of the 26th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, describes a simplified mathematical model for Stirling engines in which the thermodynamic cycle is actually a Crossley cycle and the mechanism has a constant effectiveness e. See also: Energy Research at UWRF, USA

Two-Stage Stirling Cooler - Program Goals and Objectives: This program will result in an advanced engineering model of a two-stage linear Stirling cycle cooler for use by instruments on the Earth Observing System (EOS). However, the cooler will be of use to many other NASA programs in earth science, astronomy, microgravity sciences, interplanetary sciences and the Human Exploration Initiative.

Stirling Engine and Hot Air Engine Home Page: This site is being developed for: Collectors of vintage hot air engines Model Engineers who build HOT AIR, CALORIC, STIRLING and VACUUM ENGINES Study of external combustion regenerative air engines

Stirling Engine of Saitama University The Dynamics of Machinery Laboratory (Prof. Iwamoto) at Saitama University had studied and developed the Stirling engines till March 1998. Here is a web site which was made by Iwamoto's students in these days. Lots of links and info.

US Patent 20050242232 for a solar powered aircraft using the suns heat to drive a Sterling engine and propeller. A solar thermal powered aircraft powered by heat energy from the sun. A heat engine, such as a Stirling engine, is carried by the aircraft body for producing power for a propulsion mechanism, such as a propeller. The heat engine has a thermal battery in thermal contact with it so that heat is supplied from the thermal battery. A solar concentrator, such as reflective parabolic trough, is movably connected to an optically transparent section of the aircraft body for receiving and concentrating solar energy from within the aircraft. Concentrated solar energy is collected by a heat collection and transport conduit, and heat transported to the thermal battery. A solar tracker includes a heliostat for determining optimal alignment with the sun, and a drive motor actuating the solar concentrator into optimal alignment with the sun based on a determination by the heliostat.

"Stirling Engineer's Notebook" is intended to become an electronic alternative to the printed version of "Stirling News" - The Journal of the Stirling Engine Society. I will endeavor to get most of the text and illustrations reproduced in the printed version of Stirling News. There will be new pages added to the site on a quarterly basis.

Just some miscellaneous stuff found while surfing for articles for this page (much of it won't really apply...):

Richard's Machining Tip of the Month On this page we will provide strategies for accomplishing some of the more difficult machining operations required in the construction of small engines.

Handy info about Metal Working. ( only in English ) Measurement tools: + How to use Calipers + How to use a Micrometer + How to use Gage blocks Bench Hand: + How to make a Center point for Drilling + Info about drilling. + Info about a saw. Handy tips and tricks for Lathe.
+ How to make a Simple Tool holder. And much more....

Hayseed, A Miniature Farm Engine new 12/14/2001, additions 1/26/02 and 2/5/03 (I have added a video of Hayseed's hit & miss governor, here.) A few months ago, I took a notion to build my first internal combustion engine. I wanted an old style engine, but since it was my first, something simple seemed in order. A trip through the back issues of Strictly IC magazine yielded Hamilton Upshur's Farm Engine (Mk 2). Hamilton had designed the engine originally back in the early 90's, but since then had made some improvements. Bob Washburn published the revised engine plans in SIC in issues 77 through 79. By November, I had made substantial progress on the engine, and took the still unfinished product to SAMS (The South's own Model Engineering show in Dutton, Alabama). Bob Shores was there with his engines, and I got valuable advice from him and from Robert Russell, a model maker from Childersburg, Alabama.

Reverse Electrolysis - creating the perfect patina.
Drilling large holes with your old man.
Build your own low tension coil.
WICO EK/PR Magneto Tester
Removing a Stuck Piston
Bill Young: Cleaning caked on grease.
Leather Belting - Notes and Rules
Determining horsepower of Gasoline Engines
A day on the S.S. Lane Victory
On quality and workmanship
Exploration of a local oilfield
A trip to the Mt. Wilson Observatory
City of Vernon Power Plant
Flywheel Dangers - Mind the RPM's
Equipment at the old La Habra Chevron facility
A visit to Youngstown and the Tod Engine.
After you've ground the corn: Cornmeal Recipes

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