Beamer Stirling Cycle Beam Engine Plans
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!
