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are there plans out there for a full scale power producing engine?
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 4:48 pm
by shyflowerdancingjesusgirl
I have been looking for plans for about a 5 HP Stirling that would
burn wood. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Danny
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 4:51 pm
by fvanicek
Yeah, looking for the same. Some very low-tech thing.
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:54 pm
by hmfog458
Me three. Have lots of firewood to burn...Thx David
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:24 pm
by Brent
We sell a book on how Mr. Lockwood built a 5 Hp Stirling engine. It's not quite a plans book but we are hoping to encourage people to give it a try. There are lots of drawings and photos in the book so it should turn this into a rewarding but somewhat large project.
If you aren't a machinist you will want to buy extra copies of the book, give them to some machinists and get them interested. You will need a range of skills and equipment to build a good version of this engine and it's very likely to involve several people.
Brent Van Arsdell
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 6:16 am
by john.newson
Crazy? It seems to me that perhaps the most obvious and useful point of Stirling technology is producing domestic electricity: co-generation is a great route to go down. Why on earth is the only commercially available home-generating unit that I can discover a gas-burning planet-polluter? I too want to burn my logs from my own forest land and produce something more than just heat.