| Vintage Stirling
Cycle Engine Plans |
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"Vintage" is a 90 degree engine
with a horizontal displacer
cylinder
and a vertical power cylinder.
Connecting rods for both
cylinders us a
single crank pin. This makes for
easy construction and
interesting rod
motion. The engine frame (blue)
is made from aluminum plate,
most of
the rest of the engine is
machined from brass or stainless
steel bar
stock. Most of the brass parts
were nickel plated, but that is
not
needed in any way - just
cosmetics to suit me!
Vintage makes a perfect power
source for the Miser engine. As
such, it
is water cooled and a belt
powered water pump circulates
the warm water
through a ring that Miser sits
on and back through the engine
again.
This powers the Miser while the
Miser becomes the cooling
"radiator"
for Vintage! Just about any
other simple radiator can be
used such as a
10 foot loop of vinyl aquarium
air line tubing, etc!
The plans include the entire
engine as shown, but with a more
appropriate water pump design
than the one I used, a heater
ring to
operate a Miser engine and an
alcohol burner (not shown). The
sole
exception is a straight spoke
flywheel machined from solid
which is
similar to the one on the
"Vickie", "4-In-1" or "Beamer"
engines. An
optional curved spoke zinc alloy
flywheel casting shown on the
above
engine photos is available below
from time to time.
Vintage runs very easily on a
tiny 1/4" diameter by 1/4" high
alcohol
or propane gas flame.
The
plans set consists of 16
sheets of drawings and 2
sheets of
construction and assembly
notes.
Specifications:
Flywheel Dia.: 3.33",
Cylinder Bore:
.5", Piston Stroke: .7",
Engine Length: 6.25", Height:
4.5"
Experience Level: 6
Materials
Set: (1)
5/8" diameter x 1-1/2"
long graphite rod to
make piston, (1) 3/8"
diameter x 1-1/2" long
delrin rod for
crosshead, (1) 1/4"
diameter x 2"
long delrin rod for
bushing & small rod
ends, (2) .187" ID x
.375" OD x .125" thick
precision ball bearings,
(1) 4-40 x 1/8" socket
head set screw, (1) 4-40
x 1/4" socket head set
screw, (2) 2-56 x 1/4"
stainless steel pan head
screws. Materials
set
sold separately.
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"You
do a superb job on
your prints and
instructions, I've
never seen
better." - Dennis
Halverson (Moose
Lake, Minnesota)
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