Well okay now .... I'm back again for a bit. Been out in the shop doing some serious loading for the matches I have both days this weekend. Still have some to do, but I'm mostly ready now, and will get back to finishing it all up shortly.
But first I want to leave you with my next offering here on my Table of Rare Pairs. Another pair of Stirling Cycle engines from a really obscure Canadian maker. These two engines seem to be all they ever offered, and seemingly not for very long, back in the mid-1970's, and while sort of clunky and chunky, they do have a certain "charm" to go along with their rarity.
Here then are the Ericsson vertical and a hefty horizontal with what has to be one of the most bizarre linkages that I've ever seen ........ from the ECO Motor company in Guelph, Ontario, Canada: