CloudSeeder's Gravity Wheel on Fire

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Make Your Very Own Gravity Wheel 8|30|2010 Free Instructions!

Friends@All, the "Hammer Cam" Gravity Wheel Project is smoking rubber. By using metal roller sleeves over bolts am now achieving nearly friction-free motion => 8/23/2010.

@All Energetic Forum Users:

Friends, my Promise of having a working Gravity Wheel video by 8|30|2010 (aka 8.30.20.10) was truly optimistic as I did not even notice those numbers lining up til barely not even a week ago. I have built a model and it does look very good but my doctor had started me on a medication called Simvastatin and turned out it can have a side effect of destroying muscle fibers in the body.

The Simvastatin decided to attack my right neck & rt shoulder muscles even including the right deltoid, so I didn't know that when I made my Promise. But I still managed to build two of the Hammer Cam Gravity Wheels as it began kicking me in the shoulder, and also I did build a "Scorpion" design wheel also. Of course it needs some tweaking but I am so very much excited about it I just have to get it to you guys!

So since the calendar is pushing me and the Simvastatin is kicking me I will have to fix up the Scorpion dish and serve it to you as an animation (animated gif). From which you will easily see for yourselves why it will work, and can build it as a home hobbyist project for your children to be awed by it.

Be back soon with the Goods! Woody Riley, CloudSeeder

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8/30/2010 (somewhere in the world) people can view the Scorpion Gravity Wheel model:

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The Scorpion Gravity Wheel

for 8.30.20.10 chiseled in stone calendars for all time

The Best gravity wheel design I have to date =>



and a bit larger again =>



with a few changes it will be a fully-functioning, generator turning gravity wheel.
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HAMMER CAM also prototyped for 8.30.20.10 beating the Mayan's 2012 hands down!

The HAMMER CAM also prototyped for 8.30.20.10

beating the Mayan's 2012 hands down!

They don't quite spin continuously yet but I have come very close. Each time I build one I see ways to correct the temporary problem. I wanted to nail 8/30/2010 and feel like I have with the Hammer Cam + the Scorpion gravity wheel designs coming in uder the wire, but anyone wants to work on them be my Guest!

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Best Gravity Wheels So Far

@All:

Up til now the two best gravity wheel designs I have built and tried was last year's Pelican design. Also last year was when I designed the "Hammer Cam" but the first Hammer Cam did not have the Cam at all. It was designed to spin w/out having to hit any cams.

This year I added the cam to that good design. However, the Scorpion design is by far the best contender because #1 it's better and because #2 it's a lot easier to build.

I feel Success is imminent, 9/4/2010.

Has any of the other wheel designers had any close calls with success?

[Stealth]

close,but no cigar

I have cone close several times. Most recently with a rolling ball design by Mr. Leopold, of Leopld optics fame. I think the only reason it didn't work was because the wheel was too small. My 12'' whel doesn't have enough leverage to overcome the gravity. If I were to build a bigger wheel,I think it might self run.It almost will run now in this smaller size. Here is the picture of the wheel.I had to make some stops to keep the balls from getting lodged in the inside triangles. Stealth

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Secret to Gravity Wheels: Weight near Axle, Force Out From Axle

I have cone close several times. Most recently with a rolling ball design by Mr. Leopold, of Leopld optics fame. I think the only reason it didn't work was because the wheel was too small. My 12'' whel doesn't have enough leverage to overcome the gravity. If I were to build a bigger wheel,I think it might self run.It almost will run now in this smaller size. Here is the picture of the wheel.I had to make some stops to keep the balls from getting lodged in the inside triangles. Stealth

I will look at it. The thing about gravity wheels is any weights that are used far out away from the axle tend to work against you as much as for you. My Scorpion uses that to the full by having its weighted "head" near the axle and its lighter swinging "stinger" out away.

The Hammer Cam uses different tricks but generally speaking the heavy weights need to be tight in to the axle no matter what their position. Heavier and move less distance.

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I have cone close several times. Most recently with a rolling ball design by Mr. Leopold, of Leopld optics fame. I think the only reason it didn't work was because the wheel was too small. My 12'' wheel doesn't have enough leverage to overcome the gravity. If I were to build a bigger wheel, I think it might self run. It almost will run now in this smaller size. Here is the picture of the wheel.I had to make some stops to keep the balls from getting lodged in the inside triangles. Stealth

That's an interesting design, how it follows a cam shape trajectory. When the balls roll back to the inside they have some momentum. If you can figure a way to use that rolling energy in your favor, somehow, otherwise its being lost, expended into the stops.

If you were to design a different wheel where the ball would roll from the left across to the right and there to drop through to hit below, something like that might work. I like using "drop slots".

I also always keep an eye out for combining several different systems together. It seems like every time we depend on a single system they tend to fail.

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I have cone close several times. Most recently with a rolling ball design by Mr. Leopold, of Leopld optics fame. I think the only reason it didn't work was because the wheel was too small. My 12'' whel doesn't have enough leverage to overcome the gravity. If I were to build a bigger wheel,I think it might self run.It almost will run now in this smaller size. Here is the picture of the wheel.I had to make some stops to keep the balls from getting lodged in the inside triangles. Stealth

Is it spinning counter-clockwise? If you cut a drop slot at the end that would allow the ball to drop and strike the level below you might get it working. But I sort of think you have too many balls and too much wheel. Extra balls & extra wheel makes more mass that has to be spun.

The slot it drops through should be back not next to the outer rim. And it needs a door that will close as it comes back up, so the ball doesn't drop the wrong way, looks like. I think you have a winner there Stealth.

Another Mouse Trap!

[Stealth]

It is real close to being a self running rolling ball design. It will rotate a few revolutions before equalizing.The design is not perfect, but it is as close as any I've replicated. If you notice, one ball is missing in the system. I didn't leave out the ball,so that may be the reason mine don't work. I will give it another try when I get the time to play with it.Good Luck. Stealth

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Finding the Dead Spots caused by Excess Weight:

It is real close to being a self running rolling ball design. It will rotate a few revolutions before equalizing.The design is not perfect, but it is as close as any I've replicated. If you notice, one ball is missing in the system. I didn't leave out the ball,so that may be the reason mine don't work. I will give it another try when I get the time to play with it.Good Luck. Stealth

Basically you have one side Active and the other side Passive-by-Gravity. You would think it would work but if it doesn't, cutting a drop slot would add IMPACT, more than Passive.

You really have to watch these designs very closely to find out where they are failing, at what point. The Scorpion design has a few negatives in it too. I'll be working on it for a few days. My son was over looking at it an hour ago and he moved it real slow to see where the "dead spot" was happening. It has some excess weight to it that holds it back.

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Missing Ball? Why?

It is real close to being a self running rolling ball design. It will rotate a few revolutions before equalizing.The design is not perfect, but it is as close as any I've replicated. If you notice, one ball is missing in the system. I didn't leave out the ball,so that may be the reason mine don't work. I will give it another try when I get the time to play with it.Good Luck. Stealth

I put the system magnifier on that drawing of yours. I do not understand the letters assigned. It looks like the letter "b" is placed up at the top. Why? I will keep looking at the drawing but I don't see the advantage of having a missing ball.

Wait. The missing ball is opposite the top ball being next to the axle the closest. Sort of at a dead spot neither Pushing or Pulling. I still don't see an advantage. You may be forced to build it to see what exactly happens.

Good work!

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12 "Pie Sections" and 11 Balls

@Stealth:

I see 12 sections and 11 balls. If he had made it the way I suggested to you earlier -that the balls dropped into the next successive section- that would be the reason for always being one empty section. Perhaps this drawing is just one of many and doesn't show the balls jumping into the next section.

[redeagle]

I have cone close several times. Most recently with a rolling ball design by Mr. Leopold, of Leopld optics fame. I think the only reason it didn't work was because the wheel was too small. My 12'' whel doesn't have enough leverage to overcome the gravity. If I were to build a bigger wheel,I think it might self run.It almost will run now in this smaller size. Here is the picture of the wheel.I had to make some stops to keep the balls from getting lodged in the inside triangles. Stealth

Try an elliptical shape or atleast something similar. In order for anything like this to run smoothly your weights have to be in nearly constant motion just like a pendulum Also building several sets and offsetting them so that the make up for the week spots in the others that you are currently relying on flyweight to push through. If a heavy enough ball is rolling it will want to keep rollingyou just need that little bit of umpf to get it over the hump so to speak.
I was looking into building about a four foot one but cost became a limiting factor...4" steel bearings are a bit pricey.

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12 Plates, each offset by One Section?

@Stealth: Notice also how he left out using the "j" so the empty section would come out having an "n" for none.

I wonder if he had intentions of these wheels being 12 deep, each one turned ahead one section, sharing the same axle? It might have been showing the one as the pattern for 12 "plates". You may have to build 12.

Evil, gravity wheels sometimes approach evil. But, the designers back then were very religious so they had a powerful inclination to use the number twelve.

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@Stealth: Redeagle has reached a similar conclusion as mine looks like.

@Redeagle: maybe you can get some used metal balls from a scrap yard less pricey?