Besslers Wheel Theory

[AB Hammer]

Hay Alex

I have a approach for you. You have been trying to mirror them, don't. I'll post the answer on your forum.

[DrWhat]

We must always be careful with what Bessler says. He says that "no weights HANG from the axle", but this doesn't exclude weights connected to the axle which press ON TOP of the axle when above and which are below it when rotated and are connected to the axle but which LEAN on the base circumference of the wheel. By that I mean they may look like they are hanging but in fact they are resting on another point of the wheel.

Bessler was very coy and cryptic in his descriptions. The meanings should be taken literally but not in their most obvious way!

[jeremy]

Alex, don't give up.  I played with this stuff about 10 years ago and finally got a wheel to spin on its own.  It was one one of the double-falpper setups.  It was real tricky and took me a couple of months, but then I did it. It spun on its own for a whole day until something got out of allignment.   I do not remember what I did, as it was a real complicated process, and I think I ended up taking the wheel apart for other projects, but it did work.  I remember it had to do with precise lengths and weights on the flaps.  Good luck, I am sure you will figure it out.

[Sprocket]

I have been playing around with WM2D again - below is my attempt at modelling MT_25.  After playing around with it for awhile, it is easy to see why this design would not work.  Also tried MT-27 which seems more promising - using 3 weights, at one stage I was getting almost 2 revolutions before it back-peddled.  With 4 weights, nothing - I'll try 5 next...  I'll post it when it looks 'prettier'

Speaking of which - can someone tell me how to alter an objects colour?

[hansvonlieven]

Speaking of which - can someone tell me how to alter an objects colour?

@ sprocket

select item to be coloured, go to top menu bar, select window, select appearance, change colour

Hans von Lieven