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Check out my links in this thread. They should be able to help you.

LTD Stirling Plans

James R. Senft shows a water jacket setup in one version of this "Tapper" engine seen below.

The nice thing about using a water jacket is that the maximum temperature that this side of the...

Check out this page: Steam Engine of Australia.

There is a fairly detailed description of the manner in which they make a LTD Stirling engine. Here is a picture of the engine described.
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I like the concept. This should be a nice, sturdy, little cnc lathe when it's done.

One more question.

I am slowly tinkering with some ideas designing a cnc lathe and I'm curious why you...

Any progresss? I've enjoyed this build

Here I made some progress. I'm getting closer to feeling comfortable with the arrangement.

I still may shorten the length and I have to "bolt" everything together.

I have looked on ebay. I'm just not sure how to tell which slides are capatible with which rails.

I have seen some rails that would be nice if I cut them in half as they are very cheap (I...

I have worked on my issue a little and due to cost issues I beleive I'm going to go with supported shafts instead of linear guides.

Here is the newest update.

So I have put some linear rails and blocks on the lathe and I see a few potential problems with the basic design so far.

As far as the rails I think maybe I just picked too large a set, but I am...

Here I installed the spindle in the model. Bolted together the headstock pieces and made support ribs similar to Stevie. I am going to bolt it all together. Next I have to do some research on what...

Here is an update. I included some dimensions. I also have not actually put the spindle in the drawing yet. I just placed it out in space.

I am in the process of designing a lathe bed in my cad software. Right now I have a basic footprint down to 24"X6.5". I have drawn up a base that would be relatively simple construction. I will...

First off I've been "lurking" as they say for about a week and I am very impressed with the build. The touch sensor blew me away as did all of your attention to detail throughout. This will be one...

I don't know that I mind the no thru hole. I have no idea what the runout spec is. I was more concerned with the ability to take the side load.

Even though I'm not trying to build a machine...

I'm wanting to design my own cnc lathe and the spindle is the trickiest part. I was thinking maybe I could start with something like this?


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I see. Thanks for the heads up.

I'm considering a cnc router project and am wondering if anyone knows anything about this stepper driver. ...