The Bessler Wheel, mystery solved.

[gurangax]

So your design will work using all 20 lb. Weights?

if it were all 20lb weights then surely it will not work. some weights need to be 3/4 lighter or so depending on the design. but in the end just as Bessler said an ounce here or there makes no difference.

[gurangax]

you can see the physics involved using just one crossbar or the basic element. as stated by JB


"If I arrange to have just one cross-bar in my machine, it revolves very slowly[/font][/size], just as if it can hardly turn itself at all, but, on the contrary, when I arrange several bars, pulleys and weights, the machine can revolve much faster." [/font][/size]

[gurangax]

The use of springs is not necessary, but it can be used to dampen the impact from falling weight.

[gurangax]

Regarding this speculation


Weights may have been pierced in the middle and attached by connecting springs (observer speculation).[/li]
[li][/size]- Acta Eridutorum, An Account of the Perpetuum Mobile of J. E. E. Orffyreus, 1715[/size]
[/size]The only reason for using a pierced weights is for weight offsetting to balance the wheel, for  the initial tune up.

[gurangax]

going into it more..


The basic element consists of a sliding crossbar with leverage configuration such that it will make a 2 stage leverage system.