Recent content by Geoffrey

Hey Tin, just had to show you this, I friend of mine threw together a stirling using the ends of a bake-bean tin and the remains of his model helicopter tail rotor, it's running on a cup of coffeehttp://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/fZEEAR2dqAaum3kVens99yNPpjRYdBUICXdzGjar39o?feat=directlink

Tin: that sounds a lot like when I was at high school, the metal shop there had no lathes or mills, I think the only thing we had was a drill press and a hand knurler, we had to make a gear puller by hand, as you say with a hacksaw and files, it also had to have a mirror finish, yeah those...

Thanks for the links Tin, I've had a look around and like you said it all adds up and can become quite expensive, so it will take some time before I can afford a lathe and mill, life's necessities come before my wants, so I guess that I'll have to see what I can make with the tools that I have...

maybe someone could clue me up on what type of lathe and mill I should get, I've been looking around at mini lathes with mill attached, but I read where one guy who is a novice bought one but could not work out how the mill was supposed to work as there was no way to hold the job and looking at...

Yeah, I can see that flame lickers are a bit touchy, they seem to have their own personality not unlike low temperature stirling engines, everything needs to be just right. About ten years ago I was collecting bits and pieces to build a stirling that would run resting on your hand, but most of...

Hi all, I'm new on the forum, for years I've been fascinated with Stirling engines, but have never found the time to build one , maybe for the lack of equipment to attempt such a task, I only recently found the flame licker engines on youtube, so this has given me more incentive to actually make...