Roll on the 20th June

[ThothTheSecond]

From Rasta: Does 3d too.. And Animation 

http://sketchup.google.com/

Thanks for the info!  I actually have that program and have toyed around with it.... not enough to really get familiar with it.  It is actually relatively easy to use - guess I should play with it some more.

I did download this free CAD program:

http://www.download.com/Alibre-Design-Xpress/3000-6677_4-10424841.html?tag=lst-2&cdlPid=10666402

Seems very robust - and complicated.  Don't think I want to take the time to learn this one!  But anyone looking for a freebie might want to check it out.

Thanks again Rasta!

What about truespace, MS bought it and made it free to compete with sketchup

http://www.caligari.com/Products/trueSpace/tS75/Brochure/Intro.asp

[The Eskimo Quinn]

If you would like to defy phyics laws for fun, that would be to try and turn the wheel from behind, there is no axel at the rear of the wheel to turn, to be turning the wheel itself from the rear would be beyond super man, go back and look at the pice of wood to which it is attached that must be pushed back against the rear wall and held centre, now take 100 "NEO" magnets and place them in a ring, now place a ring of magnets inside that 30mm from each side of the outer ring also "NEO" magnets and have the inner ring attarcted to the outer ring and hold it centre (without getting you fingers broken). you can't !! but with the help of a board to keep you fingers out of the way and a lot of brute strength to hold it in place you can, now take what would have to be you thumb and make it grow 4 inches more and you might even reach the back of the wheel, and if you did have a long enough thumb you could not reproduce the movement with the same rythum each time it went round, it is going too slow for an outside interference to go untoticed in the rythem, it stopped as my hand simply got tired from holding it back from the pull of the outer ring. Give it a shot, try and hold neos centre of each other on a large scale and see how long you can hold it, then without any magnets try to spin an unevenly weighted wheel to a continous identical rythum. That in itself is not possible becuase of the uneven weight on one side. As for a pushbike wheel going past 360 on a weighted wheel, no wheel in the world can do it no matter the weight, if it is pushed and almost comes to a stop at the bottom where the weight is, it sure as hell is not going back up and over 2 more times, and most certainly not with the weight of those two neos.

It would seem that logic and physics  is now less credible than wild assumptions, next time work out what can't be done before you go jumping to conclusions as to what was done.

As to inventor ED, i started the worlds largest ever design site, it took 2 years to build it, it was for all inventors builders designers writer, anyone who would make the world a better place could use the site without paying the info sites.

It was thenewdavincis.com, when i let it expire i had to use www.thenewdavincis.info many of the links no longer work as i have not touched it for years, it had the worlds largest robotics link page by a country mile, though the pics are no longer working on the buttons many of those still work.

ED's problem was that someone had taken his pissy little site and crushed it like a bug and was doing it for free. At the time i offered a service 100 dollar flat fee to look at any design and find any flaws in the design or help to improve it, i think it was one page. If i could not help or find a major error there was no charge. His claim to fraud was i had never lodged a patent for myself at the time. therefore i must be a fraud, and of course to charge money for a service would be just criminal and i should be placed on a caution list. I have posted Keveins picture and you can see i am not short old and bald. I'm sure there is some public record of him also, he was a St Johns ambulance man for over 20 years who trained the marching and medical cadets.

I hope that clears up a few of the questions

[Rusty_Springs]

Hi All
I will correct myself and say not turning from the back, that was a bad choice of words, from what I see the only way this may work is with the magnetic current, even if the shaft was set right you wouldn't have PM, one thing about the shaft it can be pushed up and down or to the sides from the back and if someone wanted to it wouldn't take much to push it down to make it lift from the back to jump the wall comming out or in.
Take Care All
Graham
PS: the facts are it wont work because it slows in rotation because of the break effect caused by the magnets comming down, it needs stronger magnets to get up the hill which means a bigger breaking effect and the only time it rotates or even breaks the wall for that matter is because of the xtra energy added by the hands pushing it ever from the bottom to get rotation or from the top to get it over the hill.

[therealrasta]

@Archer

Glad to see you up and about. Are you planning on implementing the mag-switch into your wheel this weekend? Or are you going out of town still?  Just wanting to know how you and the project are coming along.

@Rusty

Always trying to bust Archers balls....

[AB Hammer]

Any of you guys live near Tennessee?

I am in Louisiana at this time.