alpha engine question

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Wellington
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alpha engine question

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Im currerntly building my first engine. Its a horizontal unpresurised mini alpha engine. How should i ofsett the crankshaft? does the displacer piston go 90 degrees ahead of the power piston? Thanks
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cbstirling2
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Re: alpha engine question

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Well with alpha, both pistons and cylinders can be identical on same crank pin 90 apart.
Displacer is misnomer here. Either hot or cold piston.
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Re: alpha engine question

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cbstirling2 wrote:Well with alpha, both pistons and cylinders can be identical on same crank pin 90 apart.
Displacer is misnomer here. Either hot or cold piston.
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Its a horizontal engine that looks like a gamma so no right angle to put on same pin. Im trying to copy this engine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5RkcP3QI50

regards
Wellington
Ian S C
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Re: alpha engine question

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You can actually run a parallel GAMMA on a single crank pin by running the displacer via a bell crank, and an ALPHA could be run the same way. On this motor the bell crank ratio is 1.5 : 1, for an ALPHA motor the ratio would be 1 : 1
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