Customer Reviews

Based on 5 reviews
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Zach Eubanks
Satisfy

Well made, meets all my expectations.

a
annamaria
hot air sterling

very well made and runs as told it would good buy if needed will buy again

M
Massimo
Four Stars

Love showing the grandkids. They are well made and work gteat.

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Barbara Lane (Orange Park, US)
Good for gr-son

The alcool containers should have leads to support the wicks.

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tom bechtel (Hilliard, US)
Cool LIttle Engine

I have always been interested in engines and motors (I am a mechanical engineer). Wanted to try out this Stirling engine, partly to see how it was constructed so I can eventually build a larger unit myself. It runs great and is very cleverly designed. The quality is there, with a couple of exceptions. The heat cylinder uses glass test tube for both the piston and surrounding cylinder. They give you a couple extras, but my spares were cracked and one installed piston/cylinder combo was cracked. It still ran though. However, after a couple hours running it, the outside cylinder sleeve on one side started to come apart -- this is the "tube" that the heat is applied to. It seems like a press-fit, and when it gets hot it falls off. In my case, it fell off, rolled off the table and burnt my carpet. So watch out for this! I removed the faulty side and now just run it on one cylinder. Overall it is good, but glass parts break on the trip from China, and I got a faulty one. At least one side still works.

Customer Reviews

Based on 5 reviews
40%
(2)
60%
(3)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
Z
Zach Eubanks
Satisfy

Well made, meets all my expectations.

a
annamaria
hot air sterling

very well made and runs as told it would good buy if needed will buy again

M
Massimo
Four Stars

Love showing the grandkids. They are well made and work gteat.

B
Barbara Lane (Orange Park, US)
Good for gr-son

The alcool containers should have leads to support the wicks.

t
tom bechtel (Hilliard, US)
Cool LIttle Engine

I have always been interested in engines and motors (I am a mechanical engineer). Wanted to try out this Stirling engine, partly to see how it was constructed so I can eventually build a larger unit myself. It runs great and is very cleverly designed. The quality is there, with a couple of exceptions. The heat cylinder uses glass test tube for both the piston and surrounding cylinder. They give you a couple extras, but my spares were cracked and one installed piston/cylinder combo was cracked. It still ran though. However, after a couple hours running it, the outside cylinder sleeve on one side started to come apart -- this is the "tube" that the heat is applied to. It seems like a press-fit, and when it gets hot it falls off. In my case, it fell off, rolled off the table and burnt my carpet. So watch out for this! I removed the faulty side and now just run it on one cylinder. Overall it is good, but glass parts break on the trip from China, and I got a faulty one. At least one side still works.