Sjack Abeling Gravity Wheel and the Worlds first Weight Power Plant

[AB Hammer]

Omnibus

I could build that machine with ease and precision. I am a blacksmith of 24 years and specialize with medieval armor recreation. But my plate is too full to try it, and it doesn't pass my pretest either. But I will say some parts on it that have been tried before have some merit but not in this configuration.

Here is a photo of how precise I do my work. I put the same effort in my real builds, not to be confused with my test builds. Reproductions of the Earl of Warwick legs. Hand made, no machine work except for buffing.

[Omnibus]

@ABHammer,

This is a beautiful piece of armor, indeed, but I'm afraid we need a different kind of skills, connected with making moving mechanisms. Your creations seem more like works of art, don't they? One never knows, however. Look at Leonardo da Vinci -- a genius as an artist and at the same time quite skillful in some technical matters.

[AB Hammer]

Omnibus

Thanks, Leonardo Deviance is one of my historic heroes. I also specialize in historic machinery. I have built parts for a rev-war 3 pound cannon's. I lost my photos due to a computer crash, or I would post them for it was every metal piece on it, except the cannon itself. Next time I get to KY I will go by and take new photos. I will be finishing a few of my wheels next week. Maybe I will show one.

[Omnibus]

@P-Motion,

How do you mean Abeling hasn't the time anymore? Has he abandoned the project or he's too busy to talk to anybody? I've spoken with him too, I guess, a year ago and even wanted to visit him but he declined fearing his investors won't like it. Especially showing me the wheel. Don't know what happened since.

[Cloxxki]

ABHammer, you may have touched on this before. Did you take into consideration perhaps the the Abeling style self runner might need, on top of it's super low friction, a significant kick-start velocity to come into a "zone"? The slower the wheel turns, the more one weight is lifting the other, over the whole height. At high speed, the weight would get itself reset easily, the remaining question mark being it's velocity relative to the rest of the wheel when hitting 12:00. I can see a velocity loss, obviously, but also a time GAIN. If the gain could be used somehow, or the initial 12:00 path be steeper, then I have some hope of syncronization with excess energy. The way I visualize it though, is as a deep high speed flow. Abeling's references to seeking extremely low friction materials would imply not just higher efficiency and durability of his machine, but more likely in my eyes, attaining high rpm's without friction building up faster than the gains. You'll be aware of especially air friction ramping up with speed, offering all kinds of bodies a velocity ceiling. Parashutists, large hail ice balls, cars (100bhp 210kph, 1000bhp 400kph), etc.
My gut is telling me Abeling found, or is searching a way to get high rpm at lower friction than his gains. Such a wheel would be vastly different in working from Bessler's, or simply an inferior version making it rely on high speed rather than inherent over balance.