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Homemade Stirling

Walking Beam Stirling Engine Instructable With Hand Tools Only

walking beam stirling engine

Walking beam Stirling Engine Instructable This is one of the best walking beam Stirling engine tutorials I’ve seen so far!  It’s full of pictures, video and itemized lists. It’s very clear and understandable. You can see the entire Instructable here: Stirling Engine Instructable. It covers and lists the tools necessary, the materials needed and the steps […]

LTD Stirling Cycle Engine Easy to Build Tutorial by Myfordboy

LTD Stirling Cycle Engine Video myfordboy

LTD Stirling Cycle Engine Video Tutorial In this video tutorial  Myfordboy creates a LTD Stirling cycle engine with common every day items that you can find around the home. He walks you through the entire LTD Stirling cycle engine build showing all the important steps and tools used.  He has simplified the build to make […]

Soda Can Stirling engine Coke Can Stirling Engine

Soda can Stirling engine video

Simple Soda Can Stirling Engine This is the first Soda can Stirling engine that I built. The soda can Stirling engine is a great place to start if you want to build a Stirling engine. The design is inexpensive and quick to build. This Stirling engine is a Gamma configuration. Video of my first Soda […]

10 watt DIY Stirling engine By Approtechie

10 watt DIY Stirling engine

Approtechie’s 10 Watt DIY Stirling engine Approtechie has made some really captivating Stirling engines. In this video he is testing his 10 watt DIY Stirling engine. The top speed measured during the test was 1685 RPM. 1685 rpm 10-watt DIY Stirling engine video I think this beta type Stirling engine is faster than his other gamma […]

Stirling engine generator drives 8″ electric fan by Approtechie

Stirling engine generator drives 8 inch electric fan by Approtechie

Homemade Stirling engine generator I love how affective these simple designs are. I’m always amazed with the performance of Approtecie’s Stirling engine generators. This video shows the electric fan consuming 2.4 watts. From what I can see this engine is capable of doing some work. Which is better than most of the little science project […]

1200 rpm Stirling engine by Approtechie

1200 rpm Stirling engine by Approtechie

Very fast homemade 1200 rpm Stirling engine This little Stirling is for the lack of a better term KICK ASS! Approtechie is the only garage inventor that I’ve seen with a simply built 1200 rpm Stirling engine! If you search through the thousands of Stirling engine videos on YouTube you’ll find a large variety of […]

How to Make a Single Cylinder Stirling Engine With a Tomato Can By RimstarOrg

How to Make a Single Cylinder Stirling

Video Tutorial on how to make a Single cylinder Stirling engine This is a great video by RimstarOrg on Youtube. It’s a straight forward single cylinder Stirling engine tutorial. I like the simplicity of this Beta Stirling engine. It uses a tomato soup can, balsa wood, thread, a latex balloon, a clothes hanger, some tacks […]

Five Cylinder Stirling Engine

Five Cylinder Stirling Engine

Five Cylinder Stirling Engine by Jozafax This is a great little Five cylinder Stirling engine by Jozafax on Youtube. It looks like he has put a lot of care into the fabrication and assembly of this engine. Video of a five cylinder Stirling engine Skip to the first minute mark to see the engine running. […]

Making a 6-cylinder Stirling Engine Video by YouTubes Approtechie

Making a 6-cylinder Stirling Engine

Stirling Engine Videos by Approtechie I love Approtechie’s 6-cylinder Stirling engine! His assembly video make is look easy to make this type of engine. I hope he make more of this type because they’re very inspirational. The assembly video This is mostly a photo sequence of how I built my 6-cylinder Stirling engine, but much […]

How to make a Stirling Engine

how to make a Stirling engine books

Books on how to make a Stirling engine There are many ways to learn how to make a Stirling engine. If you want to just get going and make your first DIY Stirling engine and you don’t care about looks or precision (I mean machine shop precision) then I would suggest some of Jim R. […]