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Another Chinese Stirling Engine with Speed Control
« on: February 07, 2021, 06:41:25 pm »
I bought this little Chinese Stirling engine, mainly because it's the first adjustable speed Stirling engine in my collection.  I found it on Ebay from a US seller for the same price as Banggood had, and I didn't have to wait a month for them to ship it from China.  It came fully assembled and is a great-running little engine for the money, and also a little different design than the ordinary Chinese Stirling engine. 

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Re: Another Chinese Stirling Engine with Speed Control
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2021, 07:14:54 pm »
Neat engine Doug ,never seen another one like it. I couldn't tell any discernable difference when you were turning the knob....but in the next clip it was running  much faster ?
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Re: Another Chinese Stirling Engine with Speed Control
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2021, 07:17:37 pm »
I wish more of these engines had some kind of speed control, I started using the new mini BIX round burner on my HOG
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Re: Another Chinese Stirling Engine with Speed Control
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2021, 11:42:00 pm »
Yours is running good, mines on the way back, it wouldn't run. But his brother runs real good.
That one you have Doug is a .046 and his brother is a .047. I bought one of each, it took like
five days from CA. I think my bad one was sucking air. Got it Friday, messed all night with it,
sent a message Saturday night. Sunday they send a return label and said they shipping me a new
one on Monday so they pass each other in the mail. They're on the ball.
Here's what the other style looks like.




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Re: Another Chinese Stirling Engine with Speed Control
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2021, 07:30:14 am »
Yes, the speed control isn,t that great, but it does work to some extent.mine didn,t run at first till i tightened the glass tube assembly with a wrench instead of by hand. Some thread sealer would probably have helped.
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