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Moving forward to completion with my Heron of Alexandria engine and it has turned into Heron meets War of the Worlds. Pressing the form for the “sphere” and the initial runs were covered in my original post Heron of Alexandria Steam Engine. Since then I spent some time playing with ideas for the stand and … Read more
Sometimes you get an idea in your head and mine was to make a Heron of Alexandria Steam Engine. Heron’s Aeolipile reaction steam engine from circa 10–70 AD is just an interesting toy. But maybe it inspired a few people on the 2000 year timeline of engines? First of all it is worth watching the engine … Read more
Finally I can share the finished Enjomor Whippet Installation. I was sent this engine by Stirlingkit.com, an engine based on an ET Westbury design. Unpacking was quite fun as this engine arrives nearly ready to run. The first step was to run the engine and I decided to at first run it on glow fuel. … Read more
A thermosiphon is a method of passive heat exchange between the heat source and the heat sink. In the case here the engine is the heat source and the water tank is the heat sink. The fundamental issue when running the Whippet engine in this configuration was it was getting hot and the water was … Read more
Running the Enjomor Whippet on glow fuel. I’ve made a cooling tank, part made a fuel tank and the engine is fix to an oak base. Before going too much further I really wanted to run this little engine. The engine has a good quality engine oil in the sump. Must admit that I screwed the … Read more
From an idea for the Whippet cooling tank to the finished tank on a tripod. The Enjomor Whippet is water cooled and to fit with my construction of it as a stationary engine I needed a simple water tank. The basic idea was to have a simple cooling tank next to the engine on the … Read more
A peek inside the Enjomor Whippet was just too tempting, especially with a set of Wera Allen Keys laying nearby. The head of this Whippet engine is interesting as it is constructed as two layers. The combustion chamber has a heart shape cavity that links the sidevalves to the cylinder. The video shows us removing … Read more
The Enjomor Whippet head and combustion chamber was worth a look, even before running it. This is a side-valve four-stroke and so I was expecting a simple flattish head design. With the head removed the top of the cylinder can be seen. Now you can see a cylinder liner, brass or bronze valve seats and … Read more
A parcel arrived from StirlingKit yesterday and I had to just calmly wait until this afternoon before unpacking the Enjomor Whippet. Must state that this is a Paid Promotion as this is a gift from the StirlingKit team for me to review. Initial impressions are that this is a very well designed, engineered and made … Read more
Stirling Kit have been designing and making model engines for over 10 years, originally inspired from seeing a model engine at a local show. Based in Shenzhen, China they have grown to over 100 people now making over 7000 model engines a year. Nowadays, their engine designs often start with ideas and opinions from their … Read more