" Universum 2 " Steampunk Hot Air Engine no 13

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Engine no 13, Universum

This is a combination of three Ringbom engines, consisting of 5 cylinders, 3 displacers and 2 power cylinders of which one is double working.

The engine works in accordance with the Ringbom system (the power pistons drive the oscillation of the displacers).

This engine is also made with a balance spring to keep the weight of the displacer as low as possible so that the engine can run on a tea-warmer.

For a change I made a very heavy engine to show that the superstructure of flywheel, cooling plate and pillar (weighing approx. 20 kg) easily allows the hot air engine to rotate around its axle with 2 engines.
The ball-bearing turntable has about 100 balls to enable it to turn with hardly any friction.

A technical detail of this engine is the 2 engines are driven by a double working power cylinder; the upper part is connected with the right displacement cylinder and the lower part with the left displacer cylinder.

The piston must fit extremely precisely in the power cylinder to prevent any leakage; otherwise the efficiency of the two engines will be very low.

It appears that it is very important for a Ringbom engine that the power piston and the displacer are shifted at a relative angle of between 70° and 90°. As a matter of fact this holds good for all Stirling engines.

So the key is to align everything very accurately and to take care that the linkage of the displacer bearing housing runs smoothly. I have also tried to give this big and massive object a beautiful shape - regarding it as Art - with the movement at the centre.

This comprises the rotating movement of the engine and the flywheel around their axle and the up and down dancing of the balance springs.

This engine is named Universum because it resembles the movement of Mother Earth and her rotations in our universe.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Steampunk
• hot-air
• engine
• heteluchtmachine
• art
• kinetic
• stirling
• ringbom
• universum
• motor
• brass
• kunst
• free-piston
• modelbouw
• green-planet
• green-power
• steampunk

[barumman]

Lovely work, First class, thanks for sharing.

[hardmanners]

The Holy Grail itself couldn't be more beautiful.

[MultiMohamedsami]

bravo jos! c'est très bien ce que tu as fait ! monsieur mohamed sami ahres de tunisie

[DJelectfire]

amazing! Is the engine turning itself around?

[DAKOTA56777]

I wonder if that guy who you said told you to build a stirling engine that will run on a tea warmer, told you to build a steam engine? I wonder what your desings would be, lets go back in time and find out! lol

[candr]

Excellent, wish I had your talent and eye.

[sackum]

love it

[MARKOSDM]

exelent

[dashitta]

ik zou graag ook iets dergelijk maken, hoe weet u de verhoudingen van de componenten? en hoe begin ik aan een eenvoudig model?

[dukes20084]

these are very cool to look at i wish i had some of the ones you have.

[aroni992]

Kawaii Concept! Great!