Sjack Abeling Gravity Wheel and the Worlds first Weight Power Plant

[ruggero]

AquariuZ:

Here are the dxf-file.

Just made a quick Illustrator drawing of the "dusty-jpg" wheel drawing.

;-)

regards
ruggero

BTW
It seems like the weights is disconnected from the wheel at 05:00 and 'shot' into the wheel again at 01:00.

If this is true, there will never be any weight on the wheel from 05:00 to 01:00.

Someone said that the weights are connected in pairs by a rod crossing the centre wheel:
That could very well be the starting point! â€" The weight of the falling weight + the weight of the wheel should be enought to 'push' the rising (left hand) weight up, as a small experiment easily would demonstrate:

Attach one end of a rod to the rim of a wheel and let the other end slide freely on the ground or even better, let it slide on a curved ramp.

Now try to turn the attached end to 01:00 and 'drop' it....

[Omnibus]

Thanks, @ruggero. Can't import it inot the wm2d. It imports well into AutoCAD but then even when you save it back as dxf what is seen in wm2d is just an empty square. Have tried it yourself to import it into wm2d?

[ruggero]

Hi Omnibus,

I'm on a Mac - can't use the software.

But tell me what kind of import you can manage in w2... and I send it to you.

ruggero

[Omnibus]

@ruggero,

As far as I can see wm2d can only import it's own files with the extension wm2d as well as dxf files. Could it be that it is some different kind of dxf than the one you're preparing?

[ruggero]

;-) Omnibus

Looked at the support site from wm2d for import features:
"First, make sure that the DXF file was exported as one of the following DXF versions: 12, 13, 14, or 2000."

OK -  from the FAQ one quickly realize that wm2d got a huge problem concerning import from other formats...also dxf.

But but but...I've made a 2000-export which you can try out. Hopefully it works.

ruggero ;-)