Zero Friction <> All Gravity Wheel Designers Listen Up

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There's an Irish-sounding lass on the radio belting out a song. Some lyrics she keeps repeating over & over she keeps saying 300 miles, walk 300 miles. hahaha We need her song to represent the 300 years since Johann Bessler. hahahaha I just found out I could pick up 101.5 FM last week. They can play some good tunes, but I never expected a song made for The Bessler Trek.

It's even funnier listening to it while sawing a small piece for my Gravity Wheel. I'll never get finished this way. I had to stop and enjoy it. Anyway, I've got two good lights set up to either side of my work table, finally. Now thank goodness I can work on gravity wheels 24 hours a day.

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Styrofoam Bit the Dust! Threaded rod swapped with dowel rod!

@Julian & All: Styrofoam is still a great idea, super lightweight, but when cutting through it with just a little too much side pressure the darn stuff cracked off. It's a good material for the weight and would work if I was willing to slather a thin layer of liquid metal all over it. I did something different, swapped the threaded rod from being the uprights to being the axle~hub.

That works magnificent because the hub weight is unimportant, and the 5/8 dowel rods are very little weight and very strong, drillable. I should have it complete and spinning by week's end. There were a lot of issues that had ta be resolved and they were as of this afternoon, all of them. The threaded rod slipped inside the slick metal sleeves is just about friction free as friction free gets for a lightweight rig that is.

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A strange turn of the ankle on a balance beam &lt;&gt; using 2 lite + 1 heavy weight

@All: I've been concentrating recent efforts to get 2-arm ("opposed arms") gravity wheel systems to spinning. Results have been extremely promising however, I have always held that on the final day I get any of them working I am likely to find need to place a balancing weight or two in between. These weights would help carry the 2-arm system into the domain of the next arm.

I've been working on the "Pelican wheel" design, which I thought so good a design it would not need such helper weights. However, there is one problem, the difference between a Theory and the actual building, because in the building of a gravity wheel system in less-than-optimal home laboratories and work shops all of us gravity wheel inventors invariably do not make a 100% perfectly-mirrored system.

This flaw results in most of our builds not working. Well, this last Pelican I built is even more off balance than the last one and at first you know I thought man, this is really sad. We'll never get a wheel spinning at home. The Pelican design uses falling weights and quite frankly they have a bit let me down, altho I still believe they will work one day without any help, just falling weights.

In this build I tried something new => using sliding weights instead of just falling, and I found out that a sliding fishing weight contains a very heavy wallop over just a few inches of slide. So, I am going to add one of these sliding weights not just a do-nothing inertia weight just hanging out there, and I believe this "two system" combination is going to take the Pelican into the winner's circle.

2 + 1 = 3 <> the sliding weight will give me an increased control.

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http://forum.signonsandiego.com/showthread.php?p=3857343&amp;posted=1#post3857343

Scorpion Solution to Gravity Wheels?
Why the Pelican wheel design failed.

I posted my most recent solution to successful Gravity Wheel construction here => Smart Living: Page 163 SignOnSanDiego Forums <> as of 11/19/2009. Also included is the reason why the "Pelican" gravity wheel design was unable to quite work... which has applications I believe to many other's gravity wheel designs not quite reaching continuous spin. I'm a bit slogged down by the cold weather so I decided to go ahead and put my Scorpion Solution to Gravity Wheels online for everyone else to springboard a bit further in the pool.

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To Russia, With Love, but no Sean Connery =&gt; http://tinyurl.com/1100RussianWomen

January 01 2010 update, a Friday:

Delivered a very important message to the world today => http://tinyurl.com/1100RussianWomen <> This new year 2010
needed to hear the exact details how Entropy & Thermodynamic laws can be defeated. The package has been delivered.

As for the Gravity Wheels they had to take a back seat for a bit. Some gravity wheel designs are best suited for a 3-phase design, having three arms so that no one arm is needing to move the wheel much more than 120 degrees advance. However, after several months time kicking around the Scorpion (design) it occurred to me several days ago I believe it is best to make it as a dual two-arm opposed deal.

After more kicking around I came to realize it would be best to double up on that, so my next Gravity Wheel build will be #1 larger than a desktop size since the small sizes were proving difficult to work with and #2 will have a total of four arms. This is because of the unique construction that has the heavy "head" weight of the Scorpion close to the hub.

It is my belief that it is more important to have 4 heavy "head" weights equally spaced (the whole device weight-balanced near the hub) than concern for scorpion "tail" weights because the near-to-hub inertia is what will carry this device to the winner circle you see. So I will construct two of the double arm configurations then slide them upon a shared axle (hub). Estimated time of completion: no projected date at this time other than this year, 2010.

My health has improved thank you for your prayers. After 20+ years last week my foot, that was strong-armed up to the shinbone in 1989, eased into proper place (all the bones) and quite frankly feels like a brand new limb, very strong. It helps to be able to stand up when working on gravity wheels. My sincere best wishes towards all.