PAPER-MADE STIRLING ENGINE MODEL | How to Make

Hi everybody!

Below I will show you how I did my first Instructable. It is a paper-made model of an Striling engine. In case someone wants to build it, on paper or other material, here I explain the whole process, and I leave a manual that explains how to make each of the pieces.

PD: all the measurements are in millimeters

First of all, we started making the parts detailed in the manual

We will start with the wheel, using the following parts. Joing the pieces with superglue.

Join them with superglue

Join this pieces with the previous rod, only use de superglue at the ends of the small rod

Cut the # 10 rod as needed, approximately as in the image

Join the wheel with the long rod of the previous piece

Join the last #2 piece with the #10 small rod, don't use superglue

Add one of the #2 pieces to the previous element (don't use superglue), now add the crank, use superglue to join this with the end of the rod.

Join one of the ends of the small rod with the crank, use superglue

With this part finished you can set all this to a base

In piece # 9 we must make a 6mm hole at a distance of 15mm, here we will stick piece # 15

Then we will cover one end of the cylinder with piece # 5

Join this piece to the rod, use the last #16 piece

Now we will join the piston with in cylinder and the crank
First, through the piston shaft we will insert piece # 7, this will serve to cover the other end of the cylinder. Once this is done we can join the piston shaft to the crank articulation.

Now we unite the pieces # 13 as pillars to the cylinder.

Now we can join the cylinder to the base, calculating the right distance for the piston to make its full travel

Here is a GIF. showing the piston travel and the movement of the wheel

THANKS!