Plans, projects and How-to's for Home Machinists and Other Makers
This is Jan Ridders’ newest Stirling engine. It’s so small it uses a 1 Euro coin for the flywheel and a couple of 5 Euro cent pieces for the top and bottom plates of the displacer cylinder. Jan will tell you that he got the idea for building a micro- engine from a Swiss artist who goes by the name “jovallmen” on YouTube. … Read the rest
Jan Ridders has updated plans on his web site for two of his favorite engines: a 2-cylinder flame eater and a Scuderi Split Cylinder internal combustion engine.
The flame eater was one of the first engines that Jan drew up detailed plans for and one that has received a lot of interest since he first made it eight years ago. … Read the rest
Jan Ridders recently updated his plans for a vertical flame eater engine that he originally made in 2003 as a birthday present for his son Marc. He made a number of improvements and redrew the plans using a CAD program. Jan says this engine is “more forceful and noisy” than his Stirling engine models.… Read the rest
Here is a list of the materials you will need to build Jan Ridders‘ new simple low temperature differential Stirling Engine. You can download the plans here (PDF).
I was going to build his Coffee Cup Stirling but I have started building this one instead because it will take a lot less time. … Read the rest
