World’s first Stirling hybrid electric car
Deka Research have build a small prototype hybrid electric / stirling engine car based on the chassis of an old Ford Think. The advange of the “external combustion engine” is that it can be powered from many different fuels without
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Tags: Electric Motors, Hybrid Car, Stirling Engine
Miniature Engineering
In the process of looking for information about making my flea circus chariot I’ve tracked down a few other people who like to make small things. Charlotte and Martin Willmott made the papers recently with their models of tiny kitchen
Posted in: Beginners
Tags: Automata, Cherry Hill, flea chariot, miniature, Models, St Leger, Willmott
Hidden Doors
On the TV yesterday was the Home Show and they had a short clip where their expert walked through a wall that was disguised as a bookcase. This is of course something I’ve always wanted to have in my house
Engineer = Ingenious
On the train up to see the fireworks in Carlisle this year I heard a chap say to his friend, you know the word Engineer that means a man who’s ingenious, it’s Latin you know. I looked it up on
Posted in: Inventors
Tags: Engine, Engineer, etymology, Latin, Rub
Milling in the lathe
As mentioned in previous article about compound tables and cross vices, I’m interesting in milling to get better results than manual filing for my T-nuts. I realised that because of the small side of these nuts it would be possible
A couple of Machine Shops
Shed builder and workshopshed reader, Rex pointed me at a couple of interesting sites. http://littlemachineshop.com Little Machine shop pretty much provides everything you need to get going apart from the metal. They have spare parts, tools, digital readouts, kits for
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Tags: Machine Shop
Water Clock
In Shorts Gardens WC2 there is a water clock above a shop, a large tube of water shows the minutes and a single handed dial shows the hours. There is a series of figures below the clock who presumably used
Posted in: Mechanical Gadgets
Tags: water clock
Finishing the Bezel
The bezel I started a few days back was finished off on Monday night and delivered to a happy recipient. The surface was given a very light skim to remove the paint and the ends were rounded off freehand with
Posted in: Lathe, Machining, Turning
Tags: heat expansion
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
