David Morrow
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I've just finished my Coss Horizontal except for some clean up and colour anodizing. Functionally, it's all set to go. The problem is that it won't.
I can feel no friction when I turn it over by hand. All of the moving parts are running on bearings. Everything feels fine and I feel a tiny bit of kickback which should be the power cylinder compression. I think I have the timing correct. As the power piston reaches bottom dead center, the displacer is just heading back towards the hot end and is 90 degrees ahead on the crank shaft.
I heated the hot end with a little butane torch so there's no shortage of heat.
What's the normal troubleshooting sequence you other Stirling builders follow ?
Any easy and obvious issues that I should be looking for ?
I can feel no friction when I turn it over by hand. All of the moving parts are running on bearings. Everything feels fine and I feel a tiny bit of kickback which should be the power cylinder compression. I think I have the timing correct. As the power piston reaches bottom dead center, the displacer is just heading back towards the hot end and is 90 degrees ahead on the crank shaft.
I heated the hot end with a little butane torch so there's no shortage of heat.
What's the normal troubleshooting sequence you other Stirling builders follow ?
Any easy and obvious issues that I should be looking for ?