Sunday, November 22, 2009

Vintage by Franco

Finally  I found some time to post pics of my version of the Vintage. It was truly a pleasure to work from these outstanding plans. Learned a lot in the process. Mr. Howell was truly a genius.

Click here to go to a Google album with pics of the different parts and stages.




Friday, November 20, 2009

Dave Sage's "Howell V-Eight" !!

Yes that's right. I'm building a V8 version of Jerry's V4. It's coming along well. I had to design some additional custom crankshft components. It and it's been a continuous thinking process to be sure I'm not making any mistakes. The block, heads, crank, cam, lifters, push rods, con rods and a few other parts are finished. I guess I'm about about 1/2 finished at this point.

I showed Jerry the progress I had back at January 2009 cabin fever. I think he was impresssed. I hope I can make it run.

Sage





Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Engine Maker's Farm Boy Youtube Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTJF6JEffp0

University of Idaho Advanced CAD Project - Very Cool!

Very impressive CAD video of the Howell V4.

This is the University of Idaho's ME404 Advanced CAD final project. The engine was developed all in CATIA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzOlnpWU1Vs

V4 - Running video and group project

The Howell V4 was built as a group project by the members of the craftsmanshipmuseum.com.  Go to this link for details, and to see the video of the original being run.  It sounds awesome, especially when idling.  Very deep, throaty sound - all just from 32 cc's!

Click here:

http://craftsmanshipmuseum.com/HowellV4.htm

Enjoy!

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Jim Gaskowski's Farm Boy Serial #003



Jim Gaskowski's Farm Boy Serial #003


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jim:

i was wondering what you used to make the clear ends on your gas tank, are they plastic of some kind or are they glass?

thanks
chuck

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The glass is flat mineral glass watch crystals, (Plexiglas crazes after a while). Cost about $ 9.50 for a set of 3. You can get it any dia. (goes up by .004" or .1mm sizes) and thickness - 1.0mm, 1.5mm, 2.0mm, 2.5mm, and 3.0mm. The 3.0mm thickness equals .120" so if you make a 1/16" recess in the tank flanges you can put a nice thin "O" ring inside for a seal. Never had one leak yet!

 I was looking for some way to put a small neat fuel gauge on a tank, then it dawned on me to make the whole tank a gauge. I have a problem with filling the tanks. I always try to get 2 1/2 oz. of fuel in a 2 oz. tank and as many times as I've tried it, it still doesn't fit!

Here's the site where I get mine.

http://www.ofrei.com/thick-mineral-glass.htm

There are even more sizes if you look around the site. It's a large site and you can get lost quickly.

Jim

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"Bill" 4-Cycle Gas Engine built by Reg Miller of St. Thomas, Ontario Canada



Monday, October 19, 2009

35 "Beamers" by Students at ND State College

35 "Beamer" Stirling Cycle Engines built by Students at North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton, North Dakota

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Dean William's "Duplex"


"Duplex Vacuum" Stirling Engine built by John Mallak of Hutchinson, MN


"Ringbom" Stirling Engine built by John Mallak of Hutchinson, MN


"Ringbom" Stirling Pumping Engine built by Dana Hall of Summerfield, FL


"Howell V-Four" Engine SN-035 built by Camille Goudembourg of Crauthem, Luxembourg


"Howell V-Four" Engine SN-027 built by John Britton of Grimsby, N.E. Lincolnshire UK


"Howell V-Four" SN-002 built by Robert Merva of Latrobe, PA


56 "4-in-1" engines by North Dakota State College (4IN1)

56  "4-in-1" Vacuum Engines built by Students at North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton, ND


"4-In-1" Vacuum Engine built by Jorma Sulin of Vantaa, Finland (4IN1)


"4-In-1" Vacuum Engine built by John Cady of Lafayette, CO (4IN1)


"4-in-1" Vacuum Engine built by Don Hermann of Genesse, ID (4IN1)


4-In-1" Vacuum Engine built by John Mallak of Hutchinson, MN (4IN1)


Triple "4-In-1" Vacuum Engine built by Norm Hayden of Seattle, WA (4IN1)


"4-In-1" Vacuum Engine built by Melvin Hofer of Freeman, SD (4IN1)


"4-In-1" Vacuum Engine by Dave Edgett of San Jose, CA (4IN1)


"Beamer" Stirling Cycle Engine built by Art Bilderback of Garden Grove, CA


"Beamer" S.N. 94 built by Don Hermann of Genesee, ID


"Beamer" Stirling Engine built by Melvin Hofer of Freeman, SD


54 Misers at North Dakota State College

54 "Miser" Stirling Cycle Engines built by The Students at North Dakota State College of Science of Wahpeton, North Dakota


"Miser" Low Temp Stirling Engine built by Jack Dolde of Arnold, MO


"Miser" Stirling Engine built by Joe Nightingale of Cottonwood, AZ


"Miser Stirling Engine" built by Dave Miner of Seattle, WA


"Vickie" Stirling Engine built by Melvin Hofer of Freeman, SD


"Miser Low Temp Stirling Engine" built by Bob Verhaeghe of Merritt, NC


"Vickie" Stirling Cycle Engine built by Dana Hall of Summerfield, Florida


"Miser" Low Temp Stirling Engine built by Melvin Hofer of Freeman, SD


21 "Misers"

21 "Miser" Stirling Cycle Engines built by the students of Mark Dodge at the New Hampshire Community technical College in Nashua, New Hampshire


"Vickie Stirling Engine" built by Olaf Vonstritzky of Trenton, MI


"Miser" Built by the late Dell Grupe of Culver City, CA


"Vickie Stirling Engine" built by Don Hermann of Genesee, ID


"Vintage Stirling Engine" built by Ken Hollenbeck of Sister Bay, WI