Wayne Grenning

Daimler1883web

When the Daimler Chrysler Corporation decided to make a reproduction of its first engine, one that was a pioneer in automobiles and the model for the modern engine, it commissioned three copies.  One was kept at the company’s headquarters, the other went to a collector in Michigan and the third to a museum. 

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Free Plans: Jeroen Jonkman’s “Stirling 60″

Jeroen Jonkman built this Gamma type Stirling engine for his father’s 60th birthday.  He also drew a nice set of plans for it and is very generously sharing them.  You can download them here from MachinistBlog (PDF) or from HMEM if you’re registered there and logged in.  I asked, but Jeroen didn’t

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Free Plans: David Kerzel’s C02 Engine

Here’s another set of free plans and construction notes by David Kerzel.  These are for a CO2 engine which is much smaller than his very beautiful hit & miss engine, which you can also get free plans for.  David says the flywheel is too thick, which should be easy to fix.  He also thinks the

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Simple Coke Can Stirling Engine

This Stirling engine can be built without machine tools or machinist skills.  It uses inexpensive and easy-to-find materials and it looks like it is easy to make.  I wanted to include it for our many visitors who aren’t machinists but who come here looking for plans for Stirling engines they can

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