{"id":3128,"date":"2013-01-26T19:57:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T03:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/coffee-cup-stirling-engine\/"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:36:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:36:27","slug":"coffee-cup-stirling-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/coffee-cup-stirling-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Cup Stirling Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>Over winter break I started on a project I&#8217;ve been wanting to do for a long time. A coffee cup stirling engine, made from scratch based on plans from <a href=\"http:\/\/heetgasmodelbouw.ridders.nu\/index.htm\">Jan Ridders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_9126.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_9126-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"IMG_9126.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It &#8220;almost works&#8221;. The bearings seem to be too big, and the shaft has a lot of slop. I had machined the shaft to the side I thought the bearings were going to be (3mm), but they are larger! I need to remake that part and see if it works.<\/p>\n<p>Some work in progress shots. Power piston (graphite), cylinder (brass), crank shaft (steel), flywheel (alum), stand (alum in brass).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_9110.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_9110-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_9110.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several tries to get these right:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_9105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_9105-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"IMG_9105.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flycutting stuff and testing the displacer fit in the groove.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_9064.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_9064-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_9064.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Making the flywheel:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_9066.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_9066-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_9066.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over winter break I started on a project I&#8217;ve been wanting to do for a long time. A coffee cup stirling engine, made from scratch based on plans from Jan Ridders. It &#8220;almost works&#8221;. The&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/coffee-cup-stirling-engine\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-machining"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_9126.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5453,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions\/5453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}