Gravity Motor Patent 7/10/08

[mondrasek]

Hey everyone.  I've was draged off to a pool to go swimming with my daughter and wife for the first time ( first time with the daughter and all together).  Well worth it.

TK!  Mad skills!  That is one impressive piece of work, especially manual!  Didn't know we had a machinist in our ranks.  Thank you very much.  Saphire bearings with plastic races?  Where the heck do you work?

M.

[TinselKoala]

Hey everyone.  I've was draged off to a pool to go swimming with my daughter and wife for the first time ( first time with the daughter and all together).  Well worth it.

TK!  Mad skills!  That is one impressive piece of work, especially manual!  Didn't know we had a machinist in our ranks.  Thank you very much.  Saphire bearings with plastic races?  Where the heck do you work?

M.

Thanks, but it's really no big deal. You should see the stuff CLaNZeR builds.
There are lots of machinists of all stripes (get it? you cnc drivers might not) among these threads. I most admire those who can build incredible stuff with only rudimentary tools.
I once saw, back when the Russians were mired in Afghanistan, a documentary that showed an Afghani tribesman sitting on a carpet up in the mountains somewhere, making semi-automatic handguns. He had an original for a model, a bunch of scrap metal bits, a manual drill press and a handful of files. When I saw that I knew the Russians didn't stand a chance. When I remember it, like now, I think the USA doesn't stand a chance over there either.

I made that rotor on the shop's worn-out old Bridgeport mill, with the aid of my fairly good little Sherline rotary table.
The bearings sound fancy, and I suppose they are, in a technical sense, but they aren't really very accurate. They are cheapos from Small Parts Co. that I've had in my junkbox for a long time. I was originally going to put them in my Dirod but it wasn't necessary.
I could tell you where I work, but then I'd have to...well, never mind. 

[mondrasek]

TK,

Well said. 

Have you taken a look at my bearing system?  It's the wheel assembly from one of my rollerblade wheels (in-line skates)!  But "back in the day" we were all about upgrading those so they have ABEC-6 shielded bearings.

Hey everyone.  I want to thank Clanzer first and foremost for bringing credability to this thread like no one else.  Dude, your builds have been followed by people like me who are also thrilled by the WHAT IF factor.  You are one of the reasons I keep coming back to forums like these.  Like you, I many times could see the flaw in a concept, but your builds were always exciting to watch.  Sorry you can't take the week off and keep at it.

Any chance you can show us your new set up before you head off to work?

Thanks to all of you following this thread and those of you working on the concept in your garage.  I have four more mass switches about 1/3 done to go on my set up.  Hopefully work and the baby will let me finish and mount them this week.

This has been the most intense weekend sinced last!  Thankfully I am not alone anymore.

I'll be watching and posting from work all week (unless the MIB come for me LOL)

One last thing ...a special thanks to all of you who are PMing me, especially in languages other than English.  That means we have world wide attention and can get this technology to the masses where it can do the most good ASAP.

[TinselKoala]

Mond, man, do spend that time with family. As you probably know, chasing this particular "pot of gold at the rainbow's end" has been the destruction of many great family relationships. It ain't worth it.
I know.

[dudeman750]

Just my 2 cents worth. I have talked with mondresek about this at length and he honestly wants this and I quote "for the greater good of mankind" and several times spoke of water desalination, purification and irrigation use in poor countries. These are examples of applications he keeps harping on. So rest assured, if we finally break the gravity wheel curse it will be for the world to use and not one man.

Nice f'n work TK! WOW! that is a beauty, we are anxiously wanting to see more... thanks sir!