Hi Jim Dunmyer, hope you are having a nice day
Monday, 1 September 1997 10:16:18, Jim Dunmyer wrote to Jock Rogan
Subject: HEAT ENGINE ELECTRIC
 >EH>> I sorta remember it, but it didn't have much torque as I
 >EH>> remember it. It's sure enough over my head though. That's
 >EH>> something with which I've NEVER tinkered.
  >> LOYS, I have never seen this engine you described, but at an
  >> agricultural field day I saw what was described as a coke engine.
 JD> Most of those are "Stirling Engines", so named after their
 JD> Scottish inventor. A preacher, if I remember the story
 JD> Stirling engines use air as the working fluid, with heat being
 JD> applied to one end of the thing and the other being exposed to a
 JD> cooler atmosphere. You can look in any library for diagrams of how
 JD> they operate, and there's all KINDS of plans for homebrewing them.
 JD> Home Shop Machinest Magazine is presently serializing an article on
 JD> the construction of a minature traction engine powered by a
 JD> Stirling engine
Unfortunately we don't see many of those magazines in Australian 
ewsagencies.
Thank you for your explanation. Now that I think about it I believe the owner
of this engine did explain it in a similar fashion. I couldn't remember
enough of the story to put it together for the original comment.
Now I wonder if I could combine this style of motor with a combustion heater?
 -=> Yours sincerely, Jock Rogan <=-
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.!. It's getting better all the time.
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