A video of my engine built by someone on the other side of the country using my Tin Can Stirling Engine Plans from comptune.com These plans offer more than just the design and diagrams. They explain the technique I use for making these small projects out of metal. Stirling engines are easy to build. I built my first engine while sick in bed. Most plans require a machine shop. These plans can be put together in just a few hours using simple hand tools. It took me a lot longer to write the plans than it did to build it! As a kid, I once thought “Sterling” was the correct spelling but I later learned that these engines are named after Robert Sterling, a clever clergyman in the 1800’s, who added a “regenerator” to a regular heat engine to improve efficiency. Today, with modern materials, Stirling engines are getting another look because of their ability to use any heat / cold source for power! I have run them on liquid nitrogen as well as ice.
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25. September 2008 at 10:37 pm
cute sound
11. October 2008 at 8:36 am
this probaly sounds stupid but …
how dose this work?
and
whats the tube form going from the fly wheel back to the can?
thanks
19. October 2008 at 9:23 pm
shot gun?
shot gun shells are plastic
2. November 2008 at 4:12 am
very simple physics..stirling engines work on the pressure difference between hot and cold air …that difference is used to reciprocate a piston
7. November 2008 at 1:06 am
… so stupid haha
There’s a candle/torch at the bottom the ice is for the hot air to cool down
hot air=pressure
8. November 2008 at 7:18 pm
it makes such a cool noise :p
29. November 2008 at 9:16 pm
Good work, what you used to bulit to cold cylinder?
14. December 2008 at 12:57 pm
I love this thing
!!!! Great Job!!!!!!
Yesterday I started to build one of these nice engines. I hope i coult finish it today and i hope it runs too
Greetings from Germany to all fans of the stirling engine
1. January 2009 at 10:31 pm
how did youseal the tube?
2. January 2009 at 12:03 am
It’s snug enough that it doesn’t need sealing. I made this back in 2000 and documented the construction as best I could. See description for plans. It could be more efficient, but it’s still one of the cheapest to build!
2. January 2009 at 1:34 pm
it would cost me money to buy the document
20. April 2009 at 9:56 am
$14 is very steep for plans for tin can stirlings when there are so many resources on the web that are free and so many books, with plans, available from libraries.
20. April 2009 at 11:33 am
Why do people buy food when they could just grow it? Why do people buy music when they can make their own? I’m not sure. You are free to get your information wherever you want or make your own. Try making some videos. You’ll feel better.
20. April 2009 at 6:37 pm
I feel perfectly fine thank you.
The answer to your first question can be found in Ricardo’s Law of Comparitive Advantage. The answer to the second would be found by listening to me sing (though if people were willing to pay $14 to listen to me then I would start singing pronto).
But that notwithstanding, you are never gonna be the renaissance man you aspire to be when you resort to shabby snitty little insults at the first hint of criticism.
21. April 2009 at 1:20 am
Ok, I’ll give away my secret for free. The answer, of course is that they are paying for my time, from somebody who has actually built the engine. Although you can get the plans from a library, the chances of the librarian building one is rather low. Appreciate the comments!
29. April 2009 at 11:23 am
tie me kangaroo down sport, tie me jangaroo down
22. June 2009 at 11:36 pm
this wont be too cheap to build with you scam artists selling plans for $14 its funny how you say “cost ten dollars to make” then read the fine print , “manual cost 14 dollars” RIP OFF
3. August 2009 at 2:39 am
How made the piston?
22. August 2009 at 8:29 pm
it looks like a magnum shell with………….what ever that thing is in it.
21. October 2009 at 12:07 am
looks like one of those fuck machines for mice. Very neat!
27. December 2009 at 5:40 am
some dude makes a cool thing and you go and say something trailer trash ,grab a brain
12. January 2010 at 12:00 pm
hahah fuck machine for mice
that made my day lool plz post a link to one
28. February 2010 at 1:12 am
I have never seen anything like this, it is bad ass.
1. March 2010 at 6:41 pm
don’t know how to get the plans? built my piston out of a piece of 1/2″ brass pipe from a lamp.End filled with JB Weld Cylinder is a paint marker cut down with tubing cutter. Hose fittings are brass ferrels from qutoparts. Displacer is a plastic peanutbutter lid. Stainless rods from hobby shop model planes. Going to try soldering 2 cans together for heat chamber and cut top one to hold ice. Using toilet (brass) bolt drilled out for displacer rod guide to keep water out of displacer cylinder.
4. April 2010 at 2:03 am
Pretty neat