W.K.Coombs Open discussion thread

[nightlife]

 Bruce, I posted reasons why it wont work. I wish it would but it cant, atleast not as designed. I'm not trying to "mock" anyone, I am trying to get people to think about things before jumping into them and wasting time. My reasoning is well justified and comes from expiriementing on my own.
I am only trying to help by steering people away from ideas that wont work so that they can keep investing their time thinking of some that can. I only will steer away if I know for a fact it will not work. When I do so, I will explain why it wont work unlike a lot of others who just do so to be mean without even giving a reason why it wont work.

[vonwolf]

One thing I'm not clear on is where a lever would attach and what effect it would have an the 360 degree motion of the device?
Pete

[DreamThinkBuild]

Hi Bruce,

I am offering to help replicate but if it is perceived as badgering then I will stop. I wish him good luck on his project.

What I'm experiencing in actually building the pendulum part is there is a twist in the platform. It is not just the weight being exactly centered it deals with the rollers also. What happens when you slam on the brakes in your car? The front goes down the back goes up.

In the pendulum as the weight goes forward it pushes the front of the platform down causing the front roller to brake slightly but the back roller is slightly freewheeling any kind of bump or vibration will shift the back roller out of it's 90 degree alignment with the platform. The platform is now being influenced by two different rolling angles of the rollers which make it twist which gets worse and worse on each swing.

I could add more rollers, fixed rollers or a track but that will change his design that he says works. I would just like clarification on how he handles that.

[MrMag]

The way you all are mocking the man is a shame!

Have you even read his posts. He talks like a little kid that thinks he's so smart putting everyone down. If anyone is doing mocking, it is him.

Try experimenting with something and posting something meaningful.  Or, wait until you can go buy it at Walmart, since that is what you all are wanting.  Show me, spell it out, draw it, give me a picture, a video, anything....

I guess that's what we are asking of him. He wants us to replicate but it would be nice to see the real thing, you know the one he built. A video of it working would also be nice. Do you just drop everything your working on to replicate a picture? Maybe sometimes but not always. Like I said, he said it works, so why not show us.

It is because of people like you that no one ever WANTS to even post anything real.  Experiment with what has been given, or go back to being freakin' PC Hero's!

That's what we are worried about, if it's real. Are you going to build one? I don't know about others here but I'm not going to replicate something without some kind of proof that it works. If that was the case, we all would have a ton of money invested in half built OU devices that don't work.

And you don't have to mock us about being "freakin' PC hero's"

Do you remember the post you made in the other thread,   

"No one will stomp on you if you have something that works.  If all you have is untested or untried theory, that would be different.  But if I read your words correctly, you have something that works, and the majority will listen."

I agree with you on this post. If he shows us a working model, which he says he has, there will be a lot of replications going on, I guarantee it.

[Airstriker]

I've tried some simulations with wm2d, but I couldn't really find a way to make it work. Adding the barriers (no matter where they are placed) just stops the machine. Without barriers it swings but slows down slowly. However correct timing (correct barriers placing) isn't easy in wm2d, so maybe that's why it doesn't work for me.