Stirling Engine Design and Machining
The goal of this project is to make a heat engine that can convert heat energy into rotational kinetic energy of the flywheel. This project requires both engineering prowess and creative vision. This effort has been a great opportunity to refine the GD&T skills I learned during my internship at Tesla. To the left is the top assembly rendering of the stirling engine. Throughout the Fall semester, I will update this page as I manufacture more parts of this engine.
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Machining demands excruciating precision, and this exercise has helped me greatly to understand how
parts I design in the future will be toleranced and manufactured. Below you can see videos of the manufacturing process. I hope to keep this engine for the rest of my life as a display piece, so I'm going to great lengths to make sure that the tolerancing is good and the parts are nicely polished by the time they are added to the final assembly. Looking forward to getting to test this out with a blowtorch soon.
Machining the mounting block with MasterCAM
Machining brass using fixture
Mounting Block Engineering Drawing
Finished Mounting Block