Frustration Soup is still Nutritious!
@Marxist: Well, yeah, his is indirect, I know. But his tells us a great secret by starting out Low Load with a system for adding load after it gets up to speed (I think). With direct Gravity-Only we are attempting to start out more or less WHAT WE HAVE IS WHAT WE GET. The trick is to figure a way to add weight as the device spins faster that it can only handle at that higher speed (when more centrifugal is being generated).
His does a lot of centrifugal. I have a good idea for a hammer blow device that has a hump holding it in place til it gets high enough to slide down a rail then HAMMER but I don't quite see a way to bring it back for the ride up... although I have toyed a bit with the idea of not having it come back but rather slip slide back toward the hub into a new position, ride up there to then be ready to do it all again.
But I haven't messed with it much. I worked with mine so much I gave my hand a case of rhumatoid I didn't know I had so I had ta take a day break. Another advantage for us big-handed guys is to work on larger devices like MRBREA not small ones like mine.
Whew, I wish one of you guys lived near here so I could show you these smack plate wheels and could get started on them. There's three versions of it and they all look good, real good. THE NEXT #5 IS A BLAST but I wanted to do the hardest one first so I could coast through the others... so I'm committed to doing that. Anyway, nobody would want to work on someone else's design so there you go. Each of us has to cut our own path instead of following one guy carrying the machete. No one wants to be Lieutenant Riker, everyone wants to be the Picard.
My goal is to have one of them running by June 15, doesn't matter which one.
@Marxist: Well, yeah, his is indirect, I know. But his tells us a great secret by starting out Low Load with a system for adding load after it gets up to speed (I think). With direct Gravity-Only we are attempting to start out more or less WHAT WE HAVE IS WHAT WE GET. The trick is to figure a way to add weight as the device spins faster that it can only handle at that higher speed (when more centrifugal is being generated).
His does a lot of centrifugal. I have a good idea for a hammer blow device that has a hump holding it in place til it gets high enough to slide down a rail then HAMMER but I don't quite see a way to bring it back for the ride up... although I have toyed a bit with the idea of not having it come back but rather slip slide back toward the hub into a new position, ride up there to then be ready to do it all again.
But I haven't messed with it much. I worked with mine so much I gave my hand a case of rhumatoid I didn't know I had so I had ta take a day break. Another advantage for us big-handed guys is to work on larger devices like MRBREA not small ones like mine.
Whew, I wish one of you guys lived near here so I could show you these smack plate wheels and could get started on them. There's three versions of it and they all look good, real good. THE NEXT #5 IS A BLAST but I wanted to do the hardest one first so I could coast through the others... so I'm committed to doing that. Anyway, nobody would want to work on someone else's design so there you go. Each of us has to cut our own path instead of following one guy carrying the machete. No one wants to be Lieutenant Riker, everyone wants to be the Picard.
My goal is to have one of them running by June 15, doesn't matter which one.
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