Plans, projects and How-to's for Home Machinists and Other Makers
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
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
This is a follow-up to my last post about small Stirling engines. This video shows one that might be the world’s smallest. It was made by Günter Bettinger, who has a web site which shows some of the very beautiful and interesting engines he’s made. … Read the rest
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
