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<t>Steve, in principle I'd say 'yes' to making an engine for you along the terms you suggest. In practice nothing will happen in the short term.....the friend whose workshop I use has disappeared in Greece on family business and has not been in touch for six weeks, and I do not have a key for the wo...

<t>Joe the 2HP engine would power a small motorbike....what I need are drawings- I am a machinist and have use of a workshop so I can make the Stirling myself if I have drawings- for a Stirling just big enough to charge the batts on an electric bike- 200 watts, or quarter horse, would be enough to r...

William thank you for your answer. 2 hp is wayyyy too big, all I want is something to charge the batteries of an electric bike- but I have a friend interested in domestic CHP schemes I'll pass the name onto him.

Need either a ready to run engine, or drawings/castings for a 200Watt/
quarter horse power Stirling- thanks to folks who answered my query
about the Stirling/generator for an electric bike.

<r>Daniel thank you for that idea. If money were no object then two ready to go Sunpower engines as you describe would be excellent, however I'm short of dough recovering from a stroke and really the only way forward is to make my own engines. <URL url="http://www.stirlingengine.com/FullPower.adp">h...

<t>Hi Joe thank you for your reply to the above. The reason I wanted to use a Stirling for this application is that an IC engine is noisy and smelly. I could quite likely make a small steam engine to do the job, but then I would have the problems of carrying a boiler on a bike.<br/> But just imagine...

<t>What are the possibilities of a design of Stirling engine small enough<br/> to carry on an electric bike? the bike's motor is 200W and the<br/> Stirling would be used to power a generator to keep the battery topped<br/> up- so slow starting problems of a Stirling would not be a problem.<br/> The ...