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Plans to build the Beamer Stirling Cycle Beam Engine Beamer represents a large Victorian style beam engine that could have existed in the mid to late 1800’s. It is a unique design and nothing like it has ever been done before. A belt driven cooling fan allows the engine to operate continuously at a temperature only slightly above ambient! All shafts are fitted with ball bearings for a smooth running and maintenance free engine. An operating fly ball governor which is driven by the fan belt adds much interest to the engine, but it doesn’t regulate the engine speed. The engine runs at a nice leisurely pace from a 1/4″ dia. x 5/16″ tall flame of an alcohol lamp, or one of my mini propane burners as shown. The plans set consists of 15 sheets of drawings and two sheets of construction notes. Specifications: Flywheel Diameter: 4.3″, Cylinder Bore: .600″, Piston Stroke: 1.0″, Overall Height: 6.05″, Overall Length: 10″ All of our plans projects are machined from metal bar stock (supplied by you, the builder) and no castings are required. This is the lowest cost way for you to build as the metals can usually be purchased from metal salvage yards for around $2.00 or so per pound for aluminum, brass and stainless steel. But as can be seen, most of the model engines are designed to look like they were in fact made from castings instead of rectangular blocks and round bars of metal. High precision machining is required. Experience building other types of engines from scratch is suggested.You will need a lathe and a milling machine with the usual tooling items. You will need a horizontal/vertical rotary table for your mill if you want to duplicate the visual design aspects of some of the projects – spoked flywheels, fluted columns etc., but the engines will operate just as well without those features. Please note – we do not have any ready to run engines or bolt together engine kits for sale. The plans are for model engines – the engines can be scaled to any size, but no claims of suitability for practical power generation are made. The Plans Set drawings are high quality computer generated drawings using a professional CAD (Computer Aided Design) program and printed on 8-1/2″ x 11″ sheets with a laser printer. This permits you to insert them in plastic sheet protectors so they won’t get soiled as you use them in the shop. Dimensions are in U.S. inch decimals – no fractions – which makes it easy for you to change the scale of your model to suit your machine tool capacity or the materials you have on hand or have access to. Multiply dimensions by 25.4 to obtain millimeter dimensions. NOTE: If you want your plans right away, send us a message with your email address and we will email you a link to download a PDF of the plans. If you are successful in downloading, we will cancel mailing of the hard copy and refund 80% of the eBay shipping cost. We are the owners of this copyrighted material. Sale or giving away our plans is strictly prohibited!

Plans to build a Miser Low Temp Stirling Cycle EngineThe Miser engine type is the best conversation piece ever invented. It will run on a cup of warm coffee, the warmth of your hand, or even an ice cream cone! Here is an engine that you can actually operate in bed with no danger of setting the sheets on fire!This modified Heinrici stirling cycle engine doesn’t need a fire to operate it. It has no valves, ignition system, carburetor, or exhaust. It will run on any heat source such as on top of a cup of warm water (coffee), from the heat of a light bulb if placed on top of a lamp shade, in full sunlight, on a TV, VCR, and a zillion other sources. It runs at about 90 RPM when held in the palm of a hand and much faster with the other heat sources. It will also operate in reverse from a cold source such as ice or snow. As can be seen, the possibilities are almost endless.Folks who are not ordinarily interested in engines of any kind are always curious about this one. Unlike other low temperature engines, I designed Miser to actually look like an engine! Isn’t that a novel idea! It is not as hard to build as it may look, but you can simplify the styling if you are in a hurry to get yours running.Miser is built mostly from aluminum alloy bar stock and plate, while most of the smaller parts are of brass or steel. A few parts that can’t be metal because they need to be good heat insulators are made from clear acrylic (so the works can be seen) or delrin. The HTF (Hard-To-Find) Materials Kit below contains the needed materials that may be difficult for most builders to obtain otherwise. They would also cost more when obtained from separate multiple sources even if the minimum order amount was not a problem. The plans are also available separately – see below. The plans set consists of 10 sheets of quality laser printed CAD drawings and 2 sheets of construction and assembly notes.Specifications: Flywheel Diameter: 5.2″, Cylinder Bore: .600″, Piston Stroke: .625″, Overall Height: 7.4″ All of our plans projects are machined from metal bar stock (supplied by you, the builder) and no castings are required. This is the lowest cost way for you to build as the metals can usually be purchased from metal salvage yards for around $2.00 or so per pound for aluminum, brass and stainless steel. But as can be seen, most of the model engines are designed to look like they were in fact made from castings instead of rectangular blocks and round bars of metal. High precision machining is required. Experience building other types of engines from scratch is suggested.You will need a lathe and a milling machine with the usual tooling items. You will need a horizontal/vertical rotary table for your mill if you want to duplicate the visual design aspects of some of the projects – spoked flywheels, fluted columns etc., but the engines will operate just as well without those features. Please note – we do not have any ready to run engines or bolt together engine kits for sale. The plans are for model engines – the engines can be scaled to any size, but no claims of suitability for practical power generation are made.The Plans Set drawings are high quality computer generated drawings using a professional CAD (Computer Aided Design) program and printed on 8-1/2″ x 11″ sheets with a laser printer. This permits you to insert them in plastic sheet protectors so they won’t get soiled as you use them in the shop. Dimensions are in U.S. inch decimals – no fractions – which makes it easy for you to change the scale of your model to suit your machine tool capacity or the materials you have on hand or have access to. Multiply dimensions by 25.4 to obtain millimeter dimensions. NOTE: If you want your plans right away, send us a message with your email address and we will email you a link to download a PDF of the plans. If you are successful in downloading, we will cancel mailing of the hard copy and refund 80% of the eBay shipping cost.We are the owners of this copyrighted material. Sale or giving away our plans is strictly prohibited!

Plans to build a Howell V-Four, 4 Cycle Gas Engine The engine is 1.95 Cu. In. (32cc) in displacement. Cylinders are 90 degrees apart in order to have the engine balanced for vibration free running. The cylinder bore is .875″ and the piston stroke is .812″. The cylinder banks are not staggered and robust knife and fork connecting rods are used. The multi segment built-up crankshaft and twin cam shafts are amazingly easy to make. A Hall Effect distributor is driven off the end of one of the cam shafts. The distributor body is linked to the throttle arm for spark advance/retard with the throttle setting. The throttle is my newest proven 2-jet design with an oiled foam air cleaner. Pressure lubrication to the rod ends is by an external gear oil pump which feeds oil through the drilled crankshaft. There is an oil pressure adjuster and an oil pressure gauge port. The engine is water cooled using my unique magnetic drive water pump which has no seals to leak, and a proper looking and effective shop made radiator. The fan blade shroud insures that the 5 curved blade fan actually pulls air through the radiator fins and not just circulate the air around behind the radiator as would otherwise result without one. There are ball bearings on the crankshaft, timing gears, camshaft, distributor, rocker arms, water pump, oil pump and fan shaft. All external parts are sealed using “O” rings which prevent any oil seepage from the engine. A crankcase vent/check valve maintains negative crankcase pressure. A dipstick is provided to monitor the oil level and also an easy to get to oil drain plug. Checking the RPM with a Laser Digital Tachometer on initial test runs show an idle speed of approximately 1,000 RPM and a top speed of 6,500+ RPM. Both of these are expected to improve after the engine is fully broken-in.This is NOT a beginners project, but anyone who is particular about his work, has built a few other successful internal combustion engines and has a 7 inch or larger lathe and a milling machine with a 6 inch rotary table should not have any problems building this engine.The plans set consists of 65 detailed sheets of quality laser printed CAD drawings and 5 sheets of Construction Notes. Every feature of the engine as shown is included in the plans set including 2-Jet Throttle, Air Cleaner, Water Pump, Oil Pump, Hall Effect Distributor, Radiator, Skid, Etc. EXCEPT the stainless steel exhaust pipes and manifolds. A full-size drawing of the manifolds is included but does not contain dimensions. A new page with manifold dimensions is pending, however, we have no estimated completion date.The Howell V-Four is the Sherline Craftsmanship Museum Group Build EngineSpecifications: Flywheel Diameter: 3″, Height on Skid: 7.07″, Overall Width: 5.75″, Length w/Radiator: 7.6″All of our plans projects are machined from metal bar stock (supplied by you, the builder) and no castings are required. This is the lowest cost way for you to build as the metals can usually be purchased from metal salvage yards for around $2.00 or so per pound for aluminum, brass and stainless steel. But as can be seen, most of the model engines are designed to look like they were in fact made from castings instead of rectangular blocks and round bars of metal. High precision machining is required. Experience building other types of engines from scratch is suggested.You will need a lathe and a milling machine with the usual tooling items. You will need a horizontal/vertical rotary table for your mill if you want to duplicate the visual design aspects of some of the projects – spoked flywheels, fluted columns etc., but the engines will operate just as well without those features.NOTE: If you want your plans right away, send us a message with your email address and we will email you a link to download a PDF of the plans. If you are successful in downloading, we will cancel mailing of the hard copy and refund 80% of the eBay shipping cost. We are the owners of this copyrighted material. Sale or giving away our plans is strictly prohibited!

Plans to build the 4-In-1 Vacuum EngineThe correct terminology is “atmospheric engine”. Never the less, here is a “flame eater” engine you can build any of four ways: (1) – Air Cooled Side Crank as shown, (2) – Water Cooled Side Crank, (3) – Air Cooled Center Crank or (4) – Water Cooled Center Crank!The air cooled engines have an optional belt driven cooling fan which provides cooling for long running sessions. The engine runs fine without it. With the fan, the engine will run all day long and never get hot. But long runs or not, the fan also adds much interest to the engine.All four versions use my oscillating (twisting) side shaft mechanism to operate the head valve. My unique valve seat is of self lubricating non-metallic material which greatly reduces valve sliding friction and virtually eliminates wear. The engine speed range is from 60 to 600 RPM or so.The engine can be ran on an alcohol flame, but for easy and accurate speed control, use my Mini Propane Burner on the “Book Shelf Models, Tools, Etc.” menu.The plans set consists of 19 sheets of drawings and 2 sheets of construction and assembly notes.Specifications: Flywheel Diameter: 4″, Cylinder Bore: 1″, Piston Stroke: 1-3/8″, Overall Length: 9″All of our plans projects are machined from metal bar stock (supplied by you, the builder) and no castings are required. This is the lowest cost way for you to build as the metals can usually be purchased from metal salvage yards for around $2.00 or so per pound for aluminum, brass and stainless steel. But as can be seen, most of the model engines are designed to look like they were in fact made from castings instead of rectangular blocks and round bars of metal. High precision machining is required. Experience building other types of engines from scratch is suggested.You will need a lathe and a milling machine with the usual tooling items. You will need a horizontal/vertical rotary table for your mill if you want to duplicate the visual design aspects of some of the projects – spoked flywheels, fluted columns etc., but the engines will operate just as well without those features. Please note – we do not have any ready to run engines or bolt together engine kits for sale. The plans are for model engines – the engines can be scaled to any size, but no claims of suitability for practical power generation are made.The Plans Set drawings are high quality computer generated drawings using a professional CAD (Computer Aided Design) program and printed on 8-1/2″ x 11″ sheets with a laser printer. This permits you to insert them in plastic sheet protectors so they won’t get soiled as you use them in the shop. Dimensions are in U.S. inch decimals – no fractions – which makes it easy for you to change the scale of your model to suit your machine tool capacity or the materials you have on hand or have access to. Multiply dimensions by 25.4 to obtain millimeter dimensions. NOTE: If you want your plans right away, send us a message with your email address and we will email you a link to download a PDF of the plans. If you are successful in downloading, we will cancel mailing of the hard copy and refund 80% of the eBay shipping cost.We are the owners of this copyrighted material. Sale or giving away our plans is strictly prohibited!

8-1/2 x 11 Paper Plans to build the Super Stirling Engine Fan This fan was designed to be a real workhorse. Every effort was made to reduce friction to an absolute minimum while at the same time making the unit extremely reliable, maintenance free, quiet and very long lived. My fan has many hundreds of running hours on it while at shows and in my office during summer months with no maintenance, service or repairs of any kind done, or needed. In addition to the crankshaft running in ball bearings, the power piston rod is fitted with precision ball bearings. All of the reciprocating parts use very low friction non-metallic components and never need oiled. The hot cap is specially designed to absorb heat from the flame. The carefully shaped and angled concave fan blades improve the overall air moving efficiency. The fan operates nicely on an alcohol flame only 1/4″ diameter and 5/16″ tall, moving a very respectable amount of air. During a day long run, the displacer cylinder will never get more than just lukewarm warm. One other design consideration was to make the fan an attractive piece of machinery. You will be the judge of that! The plans set consists of 9 sheets of drawings and 2 sheets of construction and assembly notes.Specifications: Fan Blade Dia.: 8-3/4″, Cylinder Bore: .6, Piston Stroke: 1″, Overall Height: 16-1/4″ All of our plans projects are machined from metal bar stock (supplied by you, the builder) and no castings are required. This is the lowest cost way for you to build as the metals can usually be purchased from metal salvage yards for around $2.00 or so per pound for aluminum, brass and stainless steel. But as can be seen, most of the model engines are designed to look like they were in fact made from castings instead of rectangular blocks and round bars of metal. High precision machining is required. Experience building other types of engines from scratch is suggested.You will need a lathe and a milling machine with the usual tooling items. You will need a horizontal/vertical rotary table for your mill if you want to duplicate the visual design aspects of some of the projects – spoked flywheels, fluted columns etc., but the engines will operate just as well without those features. Please note – we do not have any ready to run engines or bolt together engine kits for sale. The plans are for model engines – the engines can be scaled to any size, but no claims of suitability for practical power generation are made. The Plans Set drawings are high quality computer generated drawings using a professional CAD (Computer Aided Design) program and printed on 8-1/2″ x 11″ sheets with a laser printer. This permits you to insert them in plastic sheet protectors so they won’t get soiled as you use them in the shop. Dimensions are in U.S. inch decimals – no fractions – which makes it easy for you to change the scale of your model to suit your machine tool capacity or the materials you have on hand or have access to. Multiply dimensions by 25.4 to obtain millimeter dimensions. NOTE: If you want your plans right away, send us a message with your email address and we will send you a link to download a PDF of the plans. If you are successful in downloading, we will cancel mailing of the hard copy and refund 80% of the eBay shipping cost. We are the owners of this copyrighted material. Sale or giving away our plans is strictly prohibited!

Plans to build the Farm Boy Hit-&-Miss 4-Cycle Engine Farm Boy is a bar stock engine requiring no expensive castings but is designed to look as though it was made from castings. As seen above, it is not possible to know it was made from bar stock. It is mostly aluminum alloy which is much stronger than castings and machines better as well. As a hit-&-miss type engine it needs no cooling system and will operate for long periods on a small amount of fuel. Running time is 12 hours on 2 ounces (59cc) of fuel. Even after all day runs the engine only gets slightly warm. The engine is not difficult to build, yet offers some interesting challenges to keep an experienced builder interested. Farm Boy is designed to use an “O” ring on the piston instead of normal cast iron piston rings (the builder can use cast iron rings if desired). This results in near perfect compression from the first run and because there is very little cylinder friction, Farm Boy will coast from 20 to as many as 30 revolutions between firing. The plans set consists of 19 sheets of quality laser printed CAD drawings and 2 sheets of construction notes.Specifications: Cylinder Bore: 1″ (25.4mm), Piston Stroke: 1-3/8″ (34.9mm), Flywheel Diameter: 6″ (152.4mm), Engine Length: 10.75″ (273mm), Engine Height: 6″ (152.4mm), Engine Width: 6.9″ (175mm) All of our plans projects are machined from metal bar stock (supplied by you, the builder) and no castings are required. This is the lowest cost way for you to build as the metals can usually be purchased from metal salvage yards for around $2.00 or so per pound for aluminum, brass and stainless steel. But as can be seen, most of the model engines are designed to look like they were in fact made from castings instead of rectangular blocks and round bars of metal. High precision machining is required. Experience building other types of engines from scratch is suggested.You will need a lathe and a milling machine with the usual tooling items. You will need a horizontal/vertical rotary table for your mill if you want to duplicate the visual design aspects of some of the projects – spoked flywheels, fluted columns etc., but the engines will operate just as well without those features. Please note – we do not have any ready to run engines or bolt together engine kits for sale. The plans are for model engines – the engines can be scaled to any size, but no claims of suitability for practical power generation are made.The Plans Set drawings are high quality computer generated drawings using a professional CAD (Computer Aided Design) program and printed on 8-1/2″ x 11″ sheets with a laser printer. This permits you to insert them in plastic sheet protectors so they won’t get soiled as you use them in the shop. Dimensions are in U.S. inch decimals – no fractions – which makes it easy for you to change the scale of your model to suit your machine tool capacity or the materials you have on hand or have access to. Multiply dimensions by 25.4 to obtain millimeter dimensions. NOTE: If you want your plans right away, send us a message with your email address and we will email you a link to download a PDF of the plans. If you are successful in downloading, we will cancel mailing of the hard copy and refund 80% of the eBay shipping cost.We are the owners of this copyrighted material. Sale or giving away our plans is strictly prohibited!

Here’s a set of plans for you and your buddies to make your own English Wheel for forming sheet metal, restoring auto body parts, making and restoring aircraft panels and all manner of work in sheet metal where compound and convex curves are required. Anyone with access to a lathe (to turn the various wheels) and a welder can make a very respectable English Wheel for their own shop at a fraction of what they sell for. I’ve sold these plans to guys all over the country and have had great reviews. Printed on 8 1/2 x 11″ paper, these easy to follow plans will help you build your own wheel that will still be going strong long after you and I are gone. This makes a great EAA chapter project, car club project, High School or College industrial arts shop project or just a hobbyist looking to finally own his own English Wheel. The price includes mailing to anywhere in the US. I can also email the plans to you in a PDF format and you can print them out at your end. Just request “Digital Format” when you purchase. The photos included in this ad are NOT of actual wheels built from these plans but are almost identical to what you will have when you are done. Thanks for looking and thanks for buying from me. Please see my other auctions. NOTE: There has been some difficulty lately with guys from outside the US buying the plans. When Ebay sees you are wanting your plans mailed to a foreign country, they show me your shipping address as their global shipping forwarding office in Kentucky. They also provide me with a “reference number” which identifies you. The problem is, I mail your plans out the same day (if it’s a week day) to their forwarding office but THEY don’t get them off to you for who knows how long. I’ve had three different guys complain “I still haven’t received my plans” and one guy even filed a complaint. Let’s not do that! Either give me a US shipping address or agree to let me send them to you in a digital PDF format. That way you can print them out at home as soon as you get an email from me. Thanks !

Plans to build a “1779” 24 Pounder Naval Cannon A close replica to one of the 24 pound guns used on the ship USS Constitution. The original guns were 10 feet long and fired 24 pound iron balls. Canons of that era were usually of cast iron but sometimes bronze, and with oak carriages. Everything on the model works just as on the originals. If you want to be historically correct rather than have a polished mantle piece like mine, the barrel and all fittings should be black and the carriage of oak. Either way, it is an impressive model that will take “center stage” on your fireplace mantle, book shelf or desk.The plans set consists of 8 sheets of drawings, an info sheet and a sheet of construction and assembly notes.Specifications: Scale: 1/10th, Length: 12-1/2″, Height: 4-1/4″, Bore: 9/16″ All of our plans projects are machined from metal bar stock (supplied by you, the builder) and no castings are required. This is the lowest cost way for you to build as the metals can usually be purchased from metal salvage yards for around $2.00 or so per pound for aluminum, brass and stainless steel. But as can be seen, most of the model projects are designed to look like they were in fact made from castings instead of rectangular blocks and round bars of metal. High precision machining is required. You will need a lathe and a milling machine with the usual tooling items. You will need a horizontal/vertical rotary table for your mill if you want to duplicate the visual design aspects of some of the projects – spoked flywheels, fluted columns etc., but the engines will operate just as well without those features. Please note – we do not have any ready to run projects or bolt together project kits for sale. The plans are for a model replica – the project can be scaled to any size, but no claims of suitability for practical use are made.The Plans Set drawings are high quality computer generated drawings using a professional CAD (Computer Aided Design) program and printed on 8-1/2″ x 11″ sheets with a laser printer. This permits you to insert them in plastic sheet protectors so they won’t get soiled as you use them in the shop. Dimensions are in U.S. inch decimals – no fractions – which makes it easy for you to change the scale of your model to suit your machine tool capacity or the materials you have on hand or have access to. Multiply dimensions by 25.4 to obtain millimeter dimensions. NOTE: If you want your plans right away, send us a message with your email address and we will email you a link to download a PDF of the plans. If you are successful in downloading, we will cancel mailing of the hard copy and refund 80% of the eBay shipping cost. We are the owners of this copyrighted material. Sale or giving away our plans is strictly prohibited!