bessler wheel scissor jack

[markh]

Hey everyone.  I posted this on another thread.  P-motion emailed me a couple of days ago about putting it on a different thread, so here it is.

The basic principle is pretty straight forward, at the angle the photo shows, the weight at the left would cause the other weight to extend to the perimeter of the wheel.  When it rotates 90 degrees clockwise, I'm hoping there's a way to have the inner weight lift the outer weight.  and when the weight is at the position 90 counter clockwise of the one shown, hopefully it would extend the weight. 

I know my drawing is kind of crude, but hopefully it is descriptive enough.  I also thought that maybe you could put both weights on one side.  The outer one where it shows, and the inner one at the top of the ridge on the same side.    (of course you'd need to have those in pairs, one on each side.  )  I have also been thinking that in that configuration you could maybe have 8 or 16 of these mounted near the perimeter of the wheel.  Their sole job is to extend on the right side of the wheel, and contract on the left side.     These are obviously just speculations, but I thought maybe someone else would have a take on this. 

peace
mark

[utilitarian]

Hey everyone.  I posted this on another thread.  P-motion emailed me a couple of days ago about putting it on a different thread, so here it is.

The basic principle is pretty straight forward, at the angle the photo shows, the weight at the left would cause the other weight to extend to the perimeter of the wheel.  When it rotates 90 degrees clockwise, I'm hoping there's a way to have the inner weight lift the outer weight.  and when the weight is at the position 90 counter clockwise of the one shown, hopefully it would extend the weight. 

Your drawing is quite clear and gets the point across well.  Unfortunately, it cannot work.  The spring cannot both be loose enough to expand on the right side, but be tight enough to contract on the left.  Pick one or the other, and as soon as you do, that is where your wheel stops.

[AB Hammer]

Come on guys, I am trying to help you not waste your time. So I did the weight test for you to show you the outcome. The shifting weight is 10 time the weight at the end, and it will not pick it up. But it does neutralize it so you can do it by hand. Each time all it does is balance out with no gain.

Now it is true I didn't use the exact design but the weight in the middle is pushing on both sides at the same time giving it more. And yeas I do play with scissor jacks so since I already had the parts. What the hay? I find as many negatives with them as positives. 

I also made a 10 second video of it to show you it moving around by hand, and will be more than happy to post it or send it to you in an e-mail.

[markh]

Hey AB Hammer

Thanks for posting that.  It's very informative.   I wish I had the time to do the build myself.  I just keep reading that bessler said that a a scissor jack is involved in his wheel.  I have no idea how, but maybe I'll wrap my brain around it someday.  I read somewhere where there are two interpretations for the term for scissorjack (from German to english)  one is a scissor jack, and the other is some sort of device used by architects to make scale pictures.  (it was probably on this site that I read it)  Do you know anything about that by chance?


peace
mark

[AB Hammer]

You have to look at the toy page of Bessler's to figure it out. At least that is what Bessler hinted at.