I like the video. Wish I could hear the engine itself running instead of Rusted Root. It detracts from the historical significance IMO. Very nice engine!
Very interesting. I cannot help but think of the old Rugby song "The Engineer's song" when watching this vid. Nice to have a little humour with serious science I think.
Is it true that the Robinson engines used moving regenerators rather than the usual hollow displacer piston? I read that somewhere and began experimenting with them in the early '80's. I've gone exclusively to moving regenerators on all of my own engines now and they seem to be much more powerful for the size.
Hey, that's really spiffy!! Two questions though. One where is that hose coming from? and Two, can't we use something like these as generators or something, doesn't this seem better than burning coal? It looks like a free resource to me!
@Onyx2004 well its kinda not free seens as u have to burn something to make the flame but yeah i was thinking along the same lines but just burn waste or just scrap wood
@railrdr523 ....you can download the original patents from the US patent office and just scale them off. I f that's too hard, contact me and i can probably find a copy of them here for you and some pictures of one that I've made
My mum was born on Iron Hill, south of England and remembers the workmen coming to remove the Stirling that provided power and replace it with a (I think) diesel genny. The Stirling ran on gas, as did the lights in the house before the genny. This was during the 1940s, so that engine had been running for over half a century before it was scrapped. If it werent for electric it would probably still be there today, in working condition... Say that about a modern engine of any make.
These are cool little engines. My dad made a small one. The concept is backwards from internal combustion. Fire cools into a smaller space drawing the piston back to the head. It just seems like they couldn't ever do much work. Maybe I am wrong.
A lovely piece of machinery, think I'll invest in a set of castings to make a model when I've finished my other engineering projects. It runs so sweetly for it's age which shows how well it must have run when new. Also glad you havn't 'tarted it up' like some engine paople feel they have to with every bit of metal they get. It looks it's age.
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It looks like it would work the same as a Stirling engine although the cylinder arrangement and linkage is completely different from the normal Stirling engines.
@Juegosmmorpg, Actually its not a fake, its a hot air engine, it runs on the expansion and contract of hot air, maybe you should do some reasearch before commenting on something you know nothing about. After all, its better to be thought of as a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt!!
hey, check out GREENPOWERSCIENCE and he has some cool solar thermal demonstrations set up.. you could do a parabolic mirror on a solar tracker, direct all heat to your engine. hook engine to generator. generator will charge batteries free off the generator... catch my drift??
Regarding my previous comment, it was in relation to an earlier post about Austral engines. The engine in this video is one of the best examples I have seen, Does it run just as fast with a wood fire (I would imagine your reasons for using propane is so you don't have to clean the burner out and much cleaner when transporting it around) how long does it run before heat soak to the top affects it, and does a hot day also affect it..... and where can I get one.... :o)
I havent ran it on a wood fire, but I run the Heinrici on a wood fire sometimes. Gas is the easiest way to run it when I am at an engine rally. If it is a hot day it does run a little hotter but I can usually have the gas down lower. I can also change the water which helps it alot. If the engine has been running for several hours I can turn the gas off and it will run for around half an hour on stored heat in the cast iron.
fasinating, I bet some hot air engines would nearly run on the summer heat in a lot of places in Aussieland especially if you only had to change the cool side water.... well almost anyway :o)
I now live in Canada, but have seen a couple of Austral engines, they were built in Ballarat, as far as I understand most were internal combustion engines, although I have no doubt that as internal, external & steam engines were all just as popular at the time (including electric cars...) I would imagine they probably might have made all three. The coolest thing for me as a mechanic is imagining building an engine that still runs like new when my great grandkids are adults... that's super cool
Ronaldson brothers and Tippett made Austral engines in Ballarat Victoria, Australia from from around 1900, starting off as Ronaldson Co. All Ronaldson tippets are internal combustion, either being Kerosene, Petrol or Diesel. All Australs that are (hot tube ignition) are kerosene engines. If they have a spark plug they are petrol, you can switch them over to kerosene once they get hot. ( the magneto is cut out and it runs on the hot box.)
Great info, thanks, now I'm more intrigued than ever, I grew up in Griffith NSW, lived in Wodonga for a few years have a brother and a friend in Bendigo and have been to Ballarat a few times.
Have you written a book yet, if not, you should think about it.
Does anyone know where in New England there might be one of these engines? I would really like to see one operational and I can't seem to find one to purchase.
I know the video maker told you the name of the song though heres a piece of advice, watch the video till the end, most people are kind enough to post the name of the song thats in their videos.
@sonyxploder thank you, but I really did watch it all the way though, in fact more than once just never read the credits.but he was nice enough to respond and let me know. but thank you for the advice , in the future will look through credits before asking
"They look good:D", but for what on a farm are they actually used? Here in Germany, farmers did supply everything with their tractors at that time. They didn't have these stationairy engines.
@PowerRavioli Most small hot air engines or stirling engines were indoor engines, either running a fan, or powering a sewing machine. Some hot air engines were often used to power dentist drills :) Imagine waiting for the dentist to heat the engine up before filling your tooth ache. The big Australs were a common sight in Australia, made by ronaldson tippet the biggest engine manufacturer in the southern hemisphere.
Hot air engines make very minimal noise, if you have a look at my other videos you will find one with sound, all the noise in the video is of other engines running.
There's two cylinders at 90 degrees to one another here. One being cooled with water and one being heated by the hot plate, the two pistons are connected so air can pass between them.
Air in the heated cylinder heats up and expands, pushing the piston out. The flywheel then pushes the hot piston back down, transferring the hot air into the cooled piston; where it loses heat and contracts, pulling the piston back down. Then the cycle repeats.
I do love this engine so much- its hypnotic! You're lucky 2 own it Mattys2007.
A couple of qus- How long will it run without the cooling stack attachment I've seen with Robinsons( goes 2 hole in top surface)? Are you firing this on gas in the clip (orange pipe)? (Robinsons were used with a solid fuel fire weren't they? Is yours adaptable?)
Blixdevil and 56TonyT- there is a cutaway drawing out there of a Robinson. It does imply that it has a regen displacer cos the gap between the 2 is too close.
Im running this engine on a gas ring, yup the orange hose, once the engine has been running for awhile I can turn the gas off and it will run on its stored heat for around half an hour. The two holes on the top surface are where the water goes for the cooling. This engine doesnt really have the provisions for solid fueling. um the cooling stack im not sure what you mean?
hey, the song is send me on my way by the rusted roots, I dont have any blue prints sorry, but you can buy the castings from a foundry in england called alyn foundry, They should be able to help you out
how do you know that it is a stirling? It has to have a regenerator to be stirling eninge. That's what stirling actually invented - the regenerator, not the engine.
hey, have you any idea of the power output? i reli would love to build (or buy) somthing simalar that could be ran off a wood fire to power house lighting via a dynamo. was your one expensive?
Hi, power produced is about 1/16th of a HP, you can buy fans that sit on the wood fire but as for powering lights you would be looking at quite a big hot air engine,
Is there a regenerator in the passage between the cylinders? Really love to find one of these somewhere...please let me know if you know of any like this one or very similar. Thanks.
I absolutely love your engine, the appropriate wonderful music everything was just perfect, a nice mixture of purity functionality and honesty, more !!!!!! joe m [ but I'd love to hear you talk about your engine, that would be real nice !]
The engine is as it come from the factory, hasnt had anything done to it, for lubrication we just oil the small oil wells every hour or so. Not quite sure what it used to do, but they were used to run sewing machines, dentist drills, small water pumps that kind of thing
How does this Robinson patent differ from a ?beta(not sure if layout is beta, alpha or other)Stirling Engine? Does it have a regenerator? Is the piston we can see a displacer or a second power piston?
This little engine looks like its a real workhorse and will probably go on forever. Do you know if the design plans can still be found (It would be great to build one with a wood gassifier underneath)? Have you had to replace/repair anything?
hiya, this engine is complete and origional, hasnt had to have anything repaired or replaces , you will might be able to find a set of plans but I dont have any. the engine is 1/16th of a HP. It has two pistons, the one going up and down is the hot piston and the horizontal one is the cold/ power piston, and has a chamber running between the two. As for Beta or Alpha I am not sure. Thanks for watching
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You need to reveal the heat source, looks like you are using compressed air, and also show this device under some kind of useful work load. I'm tired of watching too many of these alternative energy device videos shown here not performing any work load, which makes them very doubtful they will perform under any type of load at all! To coin a phrase "You can fool Some of the people Some of the time, but you can't fool All of the people All of the time!"
not all engines need to be running with a load on them, it burns gas under the engine, it doesnt have anything to do with compressed air, if you take a look at my other videos you will find another one of my robinson running a sewing machine. perhaps you may need to invest in a pair of glasses and take a closer look at the vid as you can clearly see a gas burner sticking out from under the engine. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt. Good Day
Wow! that is really cool :D that engine kicks so much azz! lol if i had it i would use it to run a few machines in a small woodshop or something, it looks so industrial age and retro like a work of art, would be fun just to have it in the living room as a conversation piece, take care of it, as they say they dont make em like that anymore. :)
and the difference between a hot air engine and a stirling engine is? dont know? they are the same except the stirling engine has a regenerator and the hot air engine doesnt
I'm wondering how much power in DC amps you could get out of this engine. I have a fairly nice solar setup with a 200amp/hour battery, but it would be nice at night to use wood fire with a stirlig type engine to yield a few charging amps. Could this put out 2 to 5 amps using a small wood fire? That would actually extend my freedom from the grid a significant amount without adding more batteries to my system.
I'm told the hot air engine was outlawed durng the US prohibition. Illegal Still's were being run by this almost silent engine. Another point; do you think the oil companies don't know how effcient these engine can be? They can be heated using a parabolic lense to focus sunlight onto the heater plug - bingo you got energy from the sun converted into motive power! How would a government/oil company gain revenue from that?
A still doesn't need an engine, just a heat source and a cooling system. For cooling, you can use a passive radiator. Stirling engines can be very efficient, but they suffer from low power density. A 100 horsepower Stirling engine would be *huge*, which is why you don't see them in vehicles. For large stationary systems, the Rankine cycle (boiler -> turbine -> condenser -> feedpump) wins because its lack of reciprocating parts makes it more reliable.
Good points MFissionChipz you are quite right in what you say. The engines are not powerful for sure. I understand they were used to push a supply of water, via a small bore supply pipe, over a long distance/climb.
The house I was brought up in is very old and fully fitted with every modern ameinty. But in times past things were different - a firehearth with spit, a well and primepump, a spinning mill. These things would require power, a hot air engine/s could power these strenuous tasks.
I am sure that would turn a motorcycle alternator or carry magnets by coils mounted on flywheel. Ignorance sometimes eliminates the best ideas, before there was a dodge viper there was a 1.5hp buggy.
That's impossible, that can't work. It must be some sort of camera trick? This kind of technology would make the oil companies bankrupt! It's akin to perpetual motion. I think your pulling our legs!
It is amazing how many people will look at something like this and think it is perpetual motion. It is very obvious that there is gas being fed to the system.
In order for something to be perpetual it must power itself. I think you will find that this engine is less efficient than internal combustion engines. However, I does have the pote
If you're running it on any kind of gas then it's a gas engine!!!!!!!!!!
blackeneddarkangel 1 month ago
I like the video. Wish I could hear the engine itself running instead of Rusted Root. It detracts from the historical significance IMO. Very nice engine!
HemiRod23 1 month ago
whts the name of the song !
eik500 2 months ago
the song reminds me of that film ANTS
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SurvivalGuide2012 2 months ago
How many HP does it yield?
(Sorry if had been asked 100 times, don't see it.)
MucusFelidae 3 months ago
It's a shame that the only things that run on Hot Air nowadays are the politicians in Washington !
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kimkim1199 4 months ago
excelent..
rexrazor2003 5 months ago
the soundtrack of this video is covered by "Send me on my way - Rusted Root"
tmendestsr 5 months ago
whoever made this rode horses.
PyR0Star 6 months ago 2
hey.....I like the soundtrack. who did this song?
ANDREW47181 7 months ago
Real nice engine i love all the spin on the comments, but i must ask this question, just what in the world did this engine power? a pump/generator ?
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vodafoneoff 7 months ago
Very interesting. I cannot help but think of the old Rugby song "The Engineer's song" when watching this vid. Nice to have a little humour with serious science I think.
noel2711 7 months ago
Is it true that the Robinson engines used moving regenerators rather than the usual hollow displacer piston? I read that somewhere and began experimenting with them in the early '80's. I've gone exclusively to moving regenerators on all of my own engines now and they seem to be much more powerful for the size.
approtechie 8 months ago
What's the top rpm?
keyboardjeff 8 months ago
I could look at cams & levers, connecting rods,etc. all day long. Mesmerizing.
554687858 10 months ago
Great machine!!!! ... I wish I could find one like it!!!!
childofgodii 10 months ago
Hey, that's really spiffy!! Two questions though. One where is that hose coming from? and Two, can't we use something like these as generators or something, doesn't this seem better than burning coal? It looks like a free resource to me!
Onyx2004 11 months ago
@Onyx2004 well its kinda not free seens as u have to burn something to make the flame but yeah i was thinking along the same lines but just burn waste or just scrap wood
hieroglypkic1 10 months ago
I have never even heard of this before! It is awesome!!!
VinnyMartello 11 months ago
@railrdr523 ....you can download the original patents from the US patent office and just scale them off. I f that's too hard, contact me and i can probably find a copy of them here for you and some pictures of one that I've made
colalimills 1 year ago
I've built a model of your engine from the patent drawings. Mine is about 40mm bore and not very powerful!. I should tidy it up and make a video.
I've never seen a Robinson here in Australia, and there are very few hot air engines at any of the engine meets.
colalimills 1 year ago
Nice.
My mum was born on Iron Hill, south of England and remembers the workmen coming to remove the Stirling that provided power and replace it with a (I think) diesel genny. The Stirling ran on gas, as did the lights in the house before the genny. This was during the 1940s, so that engine had been running for over half a century before it was scrapped. If it werent for electric it would probably still be there today, in working condition... Say that about a modern engine of any make.
TheSiliconWizard 1 year ago
These are cool little engines. My dad made a small one. The concept is backwards from internal combustion. Fire cools into a smaller space drawing the piston back to the head. It just seems like they couldn't ever do much work. Maybe I am wrong.
nibortheyak 1 year ago
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mrnatethegreat70 1 year ago
Why does this make me think of Ice Age?
Steve47324 1 year ago
ice age song lol
Railbuff23 1 year ago
is this stirling engine?
Ravenlord79 1 year ago
@Ravenlord79 no, robinson, they're different patents, but both run off heated air.
flamedrag18 1 year ago
@flamedrag18 ok, i haven´t head before about robinsons patent..
Ravenlord79 1 year ago
A lovely piece of machinery, think I'll invest in a set of castings to make a model when I've finished my other engineering projects. It runs so sweetly for it's age which shows how well it must have run when new. Also glad you havn't 'tarted it up' like some engine paople feel they have to with every bit of metal they get. It looks it's age.
rorybowskill 1 year ago
Suuuper!
piespokladowy 1 year ago
its the song from matilda
rolljimmmy24 1 year ago
Rusted Root>Send Me on My Way=Ice Age=Global Warming=Renewable and Sustainable Energy=Stirling Engine...
Conclusive evidence... Thanks for posting, great engine...
sizenevermatters 1 year ago
i thought this was going to be a lame slideshow until the video started. cool engine!
SOhio142 1 year ago
"Древняя Греция" а работает.
realStrannik 1 year ago
The assembly is so simple yet so effective, very clever design, something like a you would see on a traction engine or thereabouts that era.
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Those were the days eh! When imagination and creativity ruled the waves.
BertHigginbottom 1 year ago
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zweierzieher 1 year ago
WOW ... COOL MOTOR ... (but that music sucks)
TheDarkone1111 1 year ago
if you think this is fake, I wonder what you think is real.
captkirkconnell 1 year ago
I like the concept of a large fly wheel. Once a fly wheel is in motion it takes very littl energy to keep it going right?
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henrykay01 1 year ago
It looks like it would work the same as a Stirling engine although the cylinder arrangement and linkage is completely different from the normal Stirling engines.
madrailman91 1 year ago
very lol them is the rock engin
123nomissimon1 1 year ago
Well, thanks, I just thought that it looks like a hide presure engine behin but if you say im wrong ok, I accept and I say sorry.
So soon you can do electricity? can you?
Juegosmmorpg 1 year ago
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Fake, there is a hide presure engine behin conected by a tube
Juegosmmorpg 1 year ago
@Juegosmmorpg, Actually its not a fake, its a hot air engine, it runs on the expansion and contract of hot air, maybe you should do some reasearch before commenting on something you know nothing about. After all, its better to be thought of as a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt!!
Mattys2007 1 year ago 64
@Mattys2007 You're right...nice video...
vox1philippines 1 year ago
@Mattys2007 why dont we use this to solve the energy crisis with diesel and shit like thaat
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@Juegosmmorpg stupid ass faggot you don't believe anything histirical fag.
NLmonsterNL 1 year ago
@Juegosmmorpg that's probably a fuel line for a propane burner or something
fsmetal 1 year ago
@Juegosmmorpg You might want to research "Stirling engine"... Stupid...
legox50 1 year ago
@Juegosmmorpg bullshit its called a stirling engine cok face
pyronathanpyro 1 year ago
@Juegosmmorpg or maybe its his spelling that should be a clue
trastu6296 1 year ago
TUNE!!!
Fozzy254 1 year ago
shame you can't hear the engine, what's with the crappy soundtrack. very gay indeed.
greaserleo 1 year ago
hey, check out GREENPOWERSCIENCE and he has some cool solar thermal demonstrations set up.. you could do a parabolic mirror on a solar tracker, direct all heat to your engine. hook engine to generator. generator will charge batteries free off the generator... catch my drift??
xxx777aaa 1 year ago
Regarding my previous comment, it was in relation to an earlier post about Austral engines. The engine in this video is one of the best examples I have seen, Does it run just as fast with a wood fire (I would imagine your reasons for using propane is so you don't have to clean the burner out and much cleaner when transporting it around) how long does it run before heat soak to the top affects it, and does a hot day also affect it..... and where can I get one.... :o)
TheAussieincalgary 1 year ago
I havent ran it on a wood fire, but I run the Heinrici on a wood fire sometimes. Gas is the easiest way to run it when I am at an engine rally. If it is a hot day it does run a little hotter but I can usually have the gas down lower. I can also change the water which helps it alot. If the engine has been running for several hours I can turn the gas off and it will run for around half an hour on stored heat in the cast iron.
Mattys2007 1 year ago
fasinating, I bet some hot air engines would nearly run on the summer heat in a lot of places in Aussieland especially if you only had to change the cool side water.... well almost anyway :o)
TheAussieincalgary 1 year ago
I now live in Canada, but have seen a couple of Austral engines, they were built in Ballarat, as far as I understand most were internal combustion engines, although I have no doubt that as internal, external & steam engines were all just as popular at the time (including electric cars...) I would imagine they probably might have made all three. The coolest thing for me as a mechanic is imagining building an engine that still runs like new when my great grandkids are adults... that's super cool
TheAussieincalgary 1 year ago
Ronaldson brothers and Tippett made Austral engines in Ballarat Victoria, Australia from from around 1900, starting off as Ronaldson Co. All Ronaldson tippets are internal combustion, either being Kerosene, Petrol or Diesel. All Australs that are (hot tube ignition) are kerosene engines. If they have a spark plug they are petrol, you can switch them over to kerosene once they get hot. ( the magneto is cut out and it runs on the hot box.)
Mattys2007 1 year ago
Great info, thanks, now I'm more intrigued than ever, I grew up in Griffith NSW, lived in Wodonga for a few years have a brother and a friend in Bendigo and have been to Ballarat a few times.
Have you written a book yet, if not, you should think about it.
TheAussieincalgary 1 year ago
is this powered by propane gas? I see the hose going to what appears to be a cylinder covered by a tarp.
dglenn247 1 year ago
this is a hot air engine, its external combust and its burning bottled gas.
Mattys2007 1 year ago
Matilda lol
cambigfoot88 1 year ago
Does anyone know where in New England there might be one of these engines? I would really like to see one operational and I can't seem to find one to purchase.
folkersr 1 year ago
send me on my way
hoppper26 1 year ago
nice whats the music playing? my wife wants to know lol
DFungus 1 year ago
send me on my way by the rusted roots
Mattys2007 1 year ago
I know the video maker told you the name of the song though heres a piece of advice, watch the video till the end, most people are kind enough to post the name of the song thats in their videos.
sonyxploder 1 year ago
@sonyxploder thank you, but I really did watch it all the way though, in fact more than once just never read the credits.but he was nice enough to respond and let me know. but thank you for the advice , in the future will look through credits before asking
DFungus 1 year ago
Heat engines are great :D
oOoxelAoOo 2 years ago
they are pretty good :D
Mattys2007 2 years ago
@Mattys2007
"They look good:D", but for what on a farm are they actually used? Here in Germany, farmers did supply everything with their tractors at that time. They didn't have these stationairy engines.
PowerRavioli 1 year ago
@PowerRavioli Most small hot air engines or stirling engines were indoor engines, either running a fan, or powering a sewing machine. Some hot air engines were often used to power dentist drills :) Imagine waiting for the dentist to heat the engine up before filling your tooth ache. The big Australs were a common sight in Australia, made by ronaldson tippet the biggest engine manufacturer in the southern hemisphere.
Mattys2007 1 year ago
hey, send me on my way by the rusted roots.
Mattys2007 2 years ago
where is the heat source?
jdsanchez473 2 years ago
a gas ring under the engine is the heat source
Mattys2007 2 years ago
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captainfido 2 years ago
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Its called "Send Me On My Way" by Rusted Root
Nep1701 2 years ago
"Send Me On My Way" by Rusted Root also more recently on the "Ice Age" soundtrack.
wraith0127 2 years ago
Would this engine have enough power to run a band organ?
KawhackitaRag 2 years ago
depends how big it is. it is about 1/16th of a horse power
Mattys2007 2 years ago
Well its cool and all but im guessing it has almost no torque, similar to a stirling engine.
GlamEye 2 years ago
It would be nice to hear the engine run.
Looks nice though.
rossott 2 years ago
Hot air engines make very minimal noise, if you have a look at my other videos you will find one with sound, all the noise in the video is of other engines running.
:D thanks for watching
Mattys2007 2 years ago
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captainfido 2 years ago
There's two cylinders at 90 degrees to one another here. One being cooled with water and one being heated by the hot plate, the two pistons are connected so air can pass between them.
Air in the heated cylinder heats up and expands, pushing the piston out. The flywheel then pushes the hot piston back down, transferring the hot air into the cooled piston; where it loses heat and contracts, pulling the piston back down. Then the cycle repeats.
oOoxelAoOo 2 years ago
great music and vid
cambigfoot88 2 years ago
thank you very much :D
Mattys2007 2 years ago
I do love this engine so much- its hypnotic! You're lucky 2 own it Mattys2007.
A couple of qus- How long will it run without the cooling stack attachment I've seen with Robinsons( goes 2 hole in top surface)? Are you firing this on gas in the clip (orange pipe)? (Robinsons were used with a solid fuel fire weren't they? Is yours adaptable?)
Blixdevil and 56TonyT- there is a cutaway drawing out there of a Robinson. It does imply that it has a regen displacer cos the gap between the 2 is too close.
Rockinghorseshart 2 years ago
Im running this engine on a gas ring, yup the orange hose, once the engine has been running for awhile I can turn the gas off and it will run on its stored heat for around half an hour. The two holes on the top surface are where the water goes for the cooling. This engine doesnt really have the provisions for solid fueling. um the cooling stack im not sure what you mean?
Thanks for watching :D
Mattys2007 2 years ago
What is the name of this song and who is the artist???? This is cool!!!
Also; do you have any blue prints on bui9lding this wonderful hot air engine or one like it?
56TonyT 2 years ago
hey, the song is send me on my way by the rusted roots, I dont have any blue prints sorry, but you can buy the castings from a foundry in england called alyn foundry, They should be able to help you out
Mattys2007 2 years ago
what is the max rpm on the engine?
anvil357 2 years ago
I search on youtube, and the faster stirling engine, I saw that reached 3000RPM (he had 20 cm in size).
Sorry my english :)
fernandesilyt 2 years ago
um around 150-200 RPM maybe alittle more, it gets a shake up if it gets too hot
Mattys2007 2 years ago
this is a Stirling Engine!
nahweb 2 years ago
it sure is :D
Mattys2007 2 years ago
how do you know that it is a stirling? It has to have a regenerator to be stirling eninge. That's what stirling actually invented - the regenerator, not the engine.
blixdevil 2 years ago
compresor
lacajona 2 years ago
its a hot air engine
Mattys2007 2 years ago
That's pretty darn cool. I love it!
rayunseitig 2 years ago
thanks :D
Mattys2007 2 years ago
hey, have you any idea of the power output? i reli would love to build (or buy) somthing simalar that could be ran off a wood fire to power house lighting via a dynamo. was your one expensive?
cliveconey 2 years ago
Hi, power produced is about 1/16th of a HP, you can buy fans that sit on the wood fire but as for powering lights you would be looking at quite a big hot air engine,
Mattys2007 2 years ago
Is there a 1/4 or 1/2 HP hot air engine anywhere?
KawhackitaRag 2 years ago
Rider-ericsson made a 10 inch rider engine, it was 7 foot 9 inches high and was 1 hp
Mattys2007 2 years ago
it looks like you have an air compressor hidden beneath a tarp in the background isn't that what is making the engine work?
jojothebanjoman 2 years ago
the hose you see is a gas hose, and its a gas bottle under the hose, if you look closely you can see the gas ring sitting under the engine....
Mattys2007 2 years ago
Super design....never saw this one before.
Is there a regenerator in the passage between the cylinders? Really love to find one of these somewhere...please let me know if you know of any like this one or very similar. Thanks.
sixmagpies 2 years ago
You picked an awsome song. It is perfect for this. Great job guys.
kmdental36 2 years ago
thanks, everytime I watch it i smile :)
Mattys2007 2 years ago
In what way does the music contribute to the advancement of the story or idea?
zeekwolfe 3 years ago
hello nice engine what you use to hot the air?
and what is that song?
thanks
dramdl 3 years ago
the air is heated by a gas ring under the engine, song is send me on my way
Mattys2007 3 years ago
bello e' il migliore che abbia mai visto...
giammarinogia 3 years ago
could you intergrate it into a stove to cook on ?
is it the most efficent sterling engine design ?
Could you silence it ?
Could it produce enough power to run a radio and 2 low voltage lights ?
deauzie 3 years ago
i ll build it someday
rusnanerces 3 years ago
ahaa...
rusnanerces 3 years ago
wat song is that
dylandrostvids 3 years ago
The song is called "Send Me on My Way" by Rusted Root.
gaymidget 3 years ago
what is the hose on the bottom for?
CHAWKJIM 3 years ago
This is a gas hose, we burn gas under the engine to make the heat. The hose goes to a gas ring
Mattys2007 3 years ago
cool
KOMAR1111111 3 years ago
This is so cool.
geoff390 3 years ago
I absolutely love your engine, the appropriate wonderful music everything was just perfect, a nice mixture of purity functionality and honesty, more !!!!!! joe m [ but I'd love to hear you talk about your engine, that would be real nice !]
hsigamj 3 years ago
Love your music unlike todays mindless , filthy, boring and un learned musicians
hsigamj 3 years ago
how much is it worth.
pointless14 3 years ago
Wow it's from 1880 it must be verry expensive
shigalbigal 3 years ago
also, how did you measure the 1/18th horsepower? that is about 41 watts, enough to power my small laptop!
phdecora 3 years ago
hi, just done some research on the engine and found the smaller ones are around 1/16th of a HP
Mattys2007 3 years ago
have you ever had to overhaul this engine?
what kind of maintenance does it require? lubrication of bearings?
what are the pistons made of?
was it used for work in the past?
thanks for posting!
phdecora 3 years ago
The engine is as it come from the factory, hasnt had anything done to it, for lubrication we just oil the small oil wells every hour or so. Not quite sure what it used to do, but they were used to run sewing machines, dentist drills, small water pumps that kind of thing
Mattys2007 3 years ago
its a good video. how old is that engine?
sjdnzmalcome5 3 years ago
thank you, its around 128 years old
Mattys2007 3 years ago
Hi Mattys2007,
How does this Robinson patent differ from a ?beta(not sure if layout is beta, alpha or other)Stirling Engine? Does it have a regenerator? Is the piston we can see a displacer or a second power piston?
This little engine looks like its a real workhorse and will probably go on forever. Do you know if the design plans can still be found (It would be great to build one with a wood gassifier underneath)? Have you had to replace/repair anything?
Rockinghorseshart 3 years ago
hiya, this engine is complete and origional, hasnt had to have anything repaired or replaces , you will might be able to find a set of plans but I dont have any. the engine is 1/16th of a HP. It has two pistons, the one going up and down is the hot piston and the horizontal one is the cold/ power piston, and has a chamber running between the two. As for Beta or Alpha I am not sure. Thanks for watching
Mattys2007 3 years ago
great motor! add a solar colector with a magnafying glass and conect to a generator and u got free power
dapop1001 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
You need to reveal the heat source, looks like you are using compressed air, and also show this device under some kind of useful work load. I'm tired of watching too many of these alternative energy device videos shown here not performing any work load, which makes them very doubtful they will perform under any type of load at all! To coin a phrase "You can fool Some of the people Some of the time, but you can't fool All of the people All of the time!"
mechtech2004 3 years ago
not all engines need to be running with a load on them, it burns gas under the engine, it doesnt have anything to do with compressed air, if you take a look at my other videos you will find another one of my robinson running a sewing machine. perhaps you may need to invest in a pair of glasses and take a closer look at the vid as you can clearly see a gas burner sticking out from under the engine. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt. Good Day
Mattys2007 3 years ago
Wow! that is really cool :D that engine kicks so much azz! lol if i had it i would use it to run a few machines in a small woodshop or something, it looks so industrial age and retro like a work of art, would be fun just to have it in the living room as a conversation piece, take care of it, as they say they dont make em like that anymore. :)
Taino187 3 years ago
i liked the song
rusnanerces 3 years ago
Youtube has many idiot videos but this video (Robinson Patent) is cool and saves Youtube. Tanks for posting, Mattys2007! Have a nice week!
familiamancilha 3 years ago
thank you
Mattys2007 3 years ago
Interesting little engine. Does it have a burner under the housing?
I liked the song too.
Thanks
OldSneelock 3 years ago
Thankyou, it has a gas ring under the engine to heat the hot cylinder
Mattys2007 3 years ago
at 1:41 it looks like an old lady trying to dance. who's doing something extremly supicous
Fbiman567 3 years ago
at 1:24 it appears to take the rythm of the song. Congratulations!
JERJES58 3 years ago
Lol ! I noticed that one too.
fmflores2000 3 years ago
i heard phil tucker invented this engine?
thromb 3 years ago
who would he be?
Mattys2007 3 years ago
are you reallly only making 1/16 hp?
natony0please 3 years ago
he he, sure am
Mattys2007 3 years ago
That picture is of Dr. Robert Stirling...and this engine is called a Stirling Engine.
inetprez 3 years ago
and the difference between a hot air engine and a stirling engine is? dont know? they are the same except the stirling engine has a regenerator and the hot air engine doesnt
Mattys2007 3 years ago
very fine
ouviringles 3 years ago
I'm wondering how much power in DC amps you could get out of this engine. I have a fairly nice solar setup with a 200amp/hour battery, but it would be nice at night to use wood fire with a stirlig type engine to yield a few charging amps. Could this put out 2 to 5 amps using a small wood fire? That would actually extend my freedom from the grid a significant amount without adding more batteries to my system.
feelytouchy67 3 years ago
Superb piece of history! Great to see it up and running instead of gathering dust in the corner of some museum. Great job!
trailwaus 3 years ago
LOL ! How stupid is today benzinmotors. This is beatyful !
csingcsung 4 years ago 4
I'm told the hot air engine was outlawed durng the US prohibition. Illegal Still's were being run by this almost silent engine. Another point; do you think the oil companies don't know how effcient these engine can be? They can be heated using a parabolic lense to focus sunlight onto the heater plug - bingo you got energy from the sun converted into motive power! How would a government/oil company gain revenue from that?
nobanjo14 4 years ago
A still doesn't need an engine, just a heat source and a cooling system. For cooling, you can use a passive radiator. Stirling engines can be very efficient, but they suffer from low power density. A 100 horsepower Stirling engine would be *huge*, which is why you don't see them in vehicles. For large stationary systems, the Rankine cycle (boiler -> turbine -> condenser -> feedpump) wins because its lack of reciprocating parts makes it more reliable.
MFissionChipz 4 years ago
Good points MFissionChipz you are quite right in what you say. The engines are not powerful for sure. I understand they were used to push a supply of water, via a small bore supply pipe, over a long distance/climb.
The house I was brought up in is very old and fully fitted with every modern ameinty. But in times past things were different - a firehearth with spit, a well and primepump, a spinning mill. These things would require power, a hot air engine/s could power these strenuous tasks.
nobanjo14 4 years ago
I am sure that would turn a motorcycle alternator or carry magnets by coils mounted on flywheel. Ignorance sometimes eliminates the best ideas, before there was a dodge viper there was a 1.5hp buggy.
441rider 4 years ago
thats very true, thanks for your comment, its amazing what you can do with 1/16th of a horse power. :D thanks again
Mattys2007 4 years ago
Niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
rabbithole99 4 years ago
can it power a generator? if not its worthless
wayconservative 4 years ago
What a fool. Do you know what it was like to live without electricity? Do you know what it was like to pump water by hand?
Do you suppose that if you had no electricity again (something the conservative agenda in Iraq may hasten with future nuclear discord),
how nicely this engine would rotate a spit of venison over the fire?
It would free you to do other things, like to think.
And yes, that old motor can power a generator and make light many LEDs, for instance.
reidsteam 4 years ago 2
wow and I hardly noticed the electrical plug
bamaphillip 4 years ago
Wow, the electric plug? I think your mistaken for a GAS HOSE, hmmm, might be time to invest in a pair of glasses :D:D WOW
Mattys2007 4 years ago
excellent machine,thanks for the vid
DIMPLEKEY 4 years ago
lol that songs on ice age
yomom74 4 years ago
ya right lol.. i was wondering where did i heard that music lol. nice music thou. what is it coled?
saleall 3 years ago
the song is called send me on my way by the rusted roots and its also on ice age
Mattys2007 3 years ago
That's impossible, that can't work. It must be some sort of camera trick? This kind of technology would make the oil companies bankrupt! It's akin to perpetual motion. I think your pulling our legs!
bigstiggerNo1 4 years ago
i assure you its the real deal, it was made in england too ;)
Mattys2007 4 years ago
It is amazing how many people will look at something like this and think it is perpetual motion. It is very obvious that there is gas being fed to the system.
In order for something to be perpetual it must power itself. I think you will find that this engine is less efficient than internal combustion engines. However, I does have the pote