This will show the last of the Stirling Cycle Engines for the RedRyder Table
and the first of the Hit & Miss Gas Engines.
Both of these are the creations of Randy Racine of Lansing Michigan. We brought these home when we last visited him 10 years ago. I am grateful to have acquired them directly from him while he was still with us. Sadly, several years after that visit, he passed away.
He was a man of great artistic and mechanical talent. I was fortunate to have acquired from this gentleman who could look at his half a cord stack of scrap brass parts, visualize what he wanted to build and pull pieces out of his pile, set them on the bench and commence turning and cutting. His small engines are truly mechanical art. There are no drawings for any of them. They are completely freelance design and construction.
On this Stirling Cycle piece, the coolant tank was made from the cast brass center bulb from a fireplace andiron. The stand post and main bearing pedestals are upside down candlesticks. The eagle was the finial on a brass lamp.
I did not need to do anything to these engines other than a polish.
They were both mechanically perfect and from day one ran just the way you see them here.
Enjoy,
Gil
Here is the gas engine alone:
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