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I had also considered this as a cooler/heater. Fit the piston in the center tightly and it would greatly increase your surface area allowing a very large amount of heat transfer. http://www.frostytech.com/articleimages/200610/antazoneASC1000_nekkeds.jpg On the hot side the sun or flame would hear th...

My main reason for looking into this was to find a crankshaft. though it is a start and this is already balanced so you could potentially get more RPM with a smoother engine.

Curious if anyone has ever put a fan instead of a flywheel or fins on the flywheel to push fresh air past the cooling tube even if it was a minor amount of flow to increase efficiency. Or maybe a small fan like a computer uses run sized one run off of the crankshaft.

See I figured with some adjustments to the cylinders taking out a few thousands you then could make the rings close fitting reducing the friction. You could also leave off the rings that normally go in and put in some Teflon(or carbon) rings that give the right clearances. Also don't use the v-twin ...

Also of coarse bearings and other parts even cylinders.

So I learned about the existance of Stirlings years ago and forgot about them. Now I am going green on a lot of things and I have a few projects I want to use them on(small things of course). I am curious after reading hundreds pf articles and reviewing lots of plans and theories I had a thought. In...