| Building Stirling Engines Without a Lathe |  | Author: Kjeld Hoejfeldt
Publisher: Camden Miniature Steam
Category: Book
Buy New: $16.94
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1656860
Media: Paperback
Pages: 34
ASIN: B000EA913I
Publication Date: 2004
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Condition: Brand new 8.5 x 11" paperback. 34 pages. How to build your first Stirling engine, plus details of others. Contents: 1. The Can Stirling Model 2. The workshop and materials. 3. More can Stirling experiments. 4. The Gamma configuration. 5. Stirling engines past and present. 6. How a Stirling engine works. Appendix: Useful books, videos, websites.
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8.5 x 11", 34 pages. How to build your first Stirling engine, plus details of others.
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Stops short on how-to and photo's for a beginners book February 26, 2007
M. Harris
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
[See my comment below on this (my) review]
As a book intended for beginners and those without machine shop, this book stops short on photos. I'm fine with the 2nd and following projects having less detail, or detail on critical areas only, but the first project stops short on photos just when the assembly and such gets interesting. As such, it's no better than any of the internet "build a can sterling engine" pdf's or web pages.
I do otherwise like some of the thoughts on substitute materials to make bearings, cranks, seals, diaphrams, etc.
So it's borderline OK, but I'd recommend first just googling "build a can sterling engine" and pick your half dozen candidates for build. And check out my Listmania list "Introduction to and Making Basic Stirling Engines" as I wrote it after going through a lot of books trying to get started on some nice aproachable projects.
This book will dissapoint if you buy it based on the title.
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