Glass tubes

[clintsims]

Looking for a supplier of glass tubes for stirling engines

 

[AussieJimG]

Look for borosilicate test tubes for displacer cylinders and glass syringes for the power cylinder.
Suppliers will depend on where you are. Ebay is good for a start.

Jim

 

[GLCarlson]

Looking for a supplier of glass tubes for stirling engines

sciencelab.com
greatglas.com
mountainglass.com
schott.com

I think what you want is what the industry will call precision bore tubing. In other words, standard borosilicate or flint glass won't be good enough because the bore will vary a bit.

Try buying some big glass syringes, preferably with ground plungers. Friction may kill you, but the bore will be OK.

 

[portlandron]

Spent a lot of time trying to find those items.

Hard to find supply houses that sell quantities of one or two items and could not find any that would sell syringes to private parties. Even told them they what I wanted it for and the could keep the plunger still no sale.

Best place to look is e-bay.

 

[GLCarlson]

Spent a lot of time trying to find those items.

try 'glass syringe' at amazon. Found up to 50 ml sizes, didn't seem to be any problem selling to any and all comers. May be bigger ones available (100 ml is another common size), didn't look.

Most onesie-twosie medical items are available on amazon with no silly "we can't sell that to civilians" stuff. The ones who say that are really saying they don't want to deal with a small order- order a case and see what they say.