Plans, projects and How-to's for Home Machinists and Other Makers
When the Daimler Chrysler Corporation decided to make a reproduction of its first engine, one that was a pioneer in automobiles and the model for the modern engine, it commissioned three copies. One was kept at the company’s headquarters, the other went to a collector in Michigan and the third to a museum. … Read the rest
Jeroen Jonkman built this Gamma type Stirling engine for his father’s 60th birthday. He also drew a nice set of plans for it and is very generously sharing them. You can download them here from MachinistBlog (PDF) or from HMEM if you’re registered there and logged in. I asked, but Jeroen didn’t tell me much about himself. … Read the rest
Here’s another set of free plans and construction notes by David Kerzel. These are for a CO2 engine which is much smaller than his very beautiful hit & miss engine, which you can also get free plans for. David says the flywheel is too thick, which should be easy to fix. … Read the rest
This Stirling engine can be built without machine tools or machinist skills. It uses inexpensive and easy-to-find materials and it looks like it is easy to make. I wanted to include it for our many visitors who aren’t machinists but who come here looking for plans for Stirling engines they can build. … Read the rest
