Roll on the 20th June

[b0rg13]

hi Smokey2, what if you dont even use a tube system, and just use a rod/leaver system ?, if your not sure what i mean , ill attempt to bust out my crayons and post a pic.

[sm0ky2]

Smokey2,

Could you throw up a photo of your setup?

Sincerely,
Dave L

im building it bigger at the moment,  and "re-engineering" the sliding-rod portion of the machine.

i decided to make a "block" with holes drilled out for the tubes, turned 120-degrees to one another.
i dont think my angles were as precise as i wanted them in the first build, it was just junked together with spare parts and mags.  im trying to do this without an electromagnet. - because their fields are essentially the same. with the exception of timing the EMF with the RPM, which has its ups/downs. plus im not good at making coils that work...

right now my "archs" are individual magnets mounted to a curved (movable) frame creating curved field, for the rods to push/pull on


@ Borg - please do, that might get around the problem

[b0rg13]

getting away from the tube rods/ideas,..... ive been looking for a youtube video for a while now but i cant find the one i want but this one will do...   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKyGDWeblQw   ...... at the end of the video he puts the track on and angle and the ball moves up! ( the video i was looking for the track is on a 45degree angle going from left to right( aprox 8 to 2 on a clock), and the ball moves up with no problem what so ever AND with great speed)....

.. now what i was thinking was back to the chris champell( << not sure how to spell his name) wheel and his lifting system that seemed to get all out of wack and stop and mess up the rotation of his wheel........now .. what if the magnet track was placed from 7 to 1 .. or 8 to 2..i guess youll have to watch the chris video to see what i mean if you have not,.keeping up with me so far ?.... if not ill try and draw a pic i guess, but i gotta warn ya i suck at pics.

@smoky , crap i guess ill try and draw it, its gonna be rough.

[sm0ky2]

@ Borg, i was also thinking, since the way it "feels", like it wants to travel along a spiral-path, inwards around the wheel, rather than straight in, along the radius -- so perhaps we can utilize that motion, for leverage to push the top (1:00) weight out to the circumference. - then it would work in reverse when the wheel turns halfway around.

[b0rg13]

@Smokey2 .. and all,.

..this is just a VERY basic pic i hope you get the idea , i have a MKII idea as well , but im not sure i could ever explain it, /sigh id have to draw another pic /shiver.


EDIT: after looking at the pic after it was posted i would prolly  put the leavers/hinges on the oppersite sides to help the wheel rather than slow it. , so that as the leaver at say 2 is moving to the right its not lifting up agaisnt the wheel but more like moving down ever so slightly.