{"id":17,"date":"2007-07-24T18:51:12","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T23:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/24\/stirling-engine\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T21:03:51","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T02:03:51","slug":"stirling-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/24\/stirling-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Stirling Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Click<\/a>My late father, Jack Voisin, designed and constructed a Stirling engine, which is an external combustion engine named after the Scottish engineer, Robert Stirling.\u00a0 What’s fascinating is my father’s attention to detail.\u00a0 Virtually every component is handmade.\u00a0 He did most of the work with a scroll saw and even fabricated the metal parts himself out of aluminum stock, nuts,\u00a0bolts and washers.\u00a0\u00a0The large flywheels appear to be\u00a0gears\u00a0salvaged from another device.<\/p>\n

My father had\u00a0a fascination with the Stirling engine in the late 1980s.\u00a0 I believe he\u00a0either met or corresponded with C. D. West, who wrote a book on the subject.\u00a0 <\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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The upper and lower cans are connected by an inner chamber, which is a modified spray can, closed on both ends.\u00a0 To operate the engine, fill the upper can\u00a0part way with water.\u00a0 Place a can of Sterno canned heat under the lower vented can, which has no bottom.\u00a0 This heats the bottom of the inner chamber directly.\u00a0 Once sufficient heat is generated the piston begins to move, which turns the flywheels.\u00a0 A belt can be attached to the axle to drive another device.<\/p>\n

I noticed there’s a local company here in Huntsville, Alabama that manufactures a heat circulating fan for wood stoves based on the Stirling engine.\u00a0 They are Thermal Engine Corporation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My late father, Jack Voisin, designed and constructed a Stirling engine, which is an external combustion engine named after the Scottish engineer, Robert Stirling.\u00a0 What’s fascinating is my father’s attention to detail.\u00a0 Virtually every component is handmade.\u00a0 He did most of the work with a scroll saw and even fabricated the metal parts himself out … Continue reading “Stirling Engine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}