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Hi I'm robert and i am a student at Englands, boston grammar school
and i am currently half way through my GCSE course and i was
wandering if you could help me, i would like you if you possibly
could to sent me detailed instuctions on how i could make a simple
fully working Stirling engine, so i could use it as part of my
course. yours sincerely
Robert holden

Hi Robert,

As a good student at an excellent grammar school you should know that you are asking for something free, and free is one of those naughty four letter words! [smile] We don't give away free plans for any of our engines, but there are a few Stirling engine plans that are posted on the internet. Go to Google and search on "Stirling engine plans". Jerry Howell has some good plans for sale if you plan to use a lathe, and several people have free tin can Stirling engine plans on the web.

When you get your engine built, come back to this site and make a free web page so you can show your pictures to the world. We do give away free Stirling engine web pages. First register, then click on Homepage Maintenance to make your Stirling engine page.

Hi Robert.

We are working on it in Brazil and we can help you , but would be great if you read a book " making Stirling engines " by Andy Ross. Actually I'm trying to contact him to translate his book to Portuguese and publish it, but I've got no answer yet. If you need any assistance let me know. we can share some plans.

What is GCSE ?

Ricardo

In searching for "Test Tube Stirling Engines" I found a site with directions for a test tube version and two home brew versions of the MM-5 Coffe Cup engine. Search made with www.dogpile.com and also look for "Mr. Omniscience." Note that building from scratch takes both design and craftsmanship skills. Due to the perversity of inanimate objects it frequently happen that Murphy's Law take over and an engine won't run or it is extremely temperamental. On the otherhand it just may take off like a scalded pup!

Stan Hornbaker, KnoxTN

Look for Moving Cylinder Stirling Engines on WWW.

http://www.geocities.com/hustierhof/

Simply built from readily available materials.

Stan Hornbaker
KnoxTN

Look for "Moving Cylinder Stirling Engines"
by Hubert Stierhof of Germany using www.dogpile.com

s/Stan

Here is another site to check out:

http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~khirata/

Take a look at this site.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sheepdog1951/

go to www.boydhouse.com/Stirling/index.html
it has free plans for a tin can Stirling engine without using anything more sophisticated than a drill press