New Wheel Design

[AB Hammer]

Hi Alex

I would suggest a few still shots and mount a video  to video the attempt. I will be finishing up one of my wheel this weekend as well.

Good luck

[broli]

Hi Chad, I seem to be getting quite a bit of opposition in trying to complete this wheel, I have dropped one of the levers, it needs to be completely glued again, the others just need a certain part glueing, if it hadnt of been for that, I would now start the test, but I will have to wait for tomoz now...

I will have to get some padding for the levers because the power that they hit the resting points on the rim of the wheel is quite somthing and I think that is what is making them weaker...

Edit: Yep, I just tried spinning the wheel with all but 1 lever in (without weights) and another part came off, so they need glueing again then some padding to prevent them from braking again. If the wheel does work, then it will surly destroy itself and I will have no wheel....lol

Alex

Keep it up Alex you're doing a great job.

[Alexioco]

Thanks everyone for your support, the levers have been glued and nailed (thanks to my dad) and are now being left to dry...

I have one lever that didnt brake, its been nailed and I have tried putting it into the wheel and spinning the wheel to see if it does what it should be doing, the answer is: not quite.... the weight flys upwards then hits the bar and bounces back to the axle, i tried wraping the bar with a soft material but it still bounces back down... I do know a solution but in means drilling the wheel again and moving the bars, which at the moment is to much and I dont want to make a mess of the wheel...

Edit: There seems to be a bit more hope for this wheel now, when I add the second weight onto the one lever so they act in pairs, the weights lift up and stay up, by rights the levers should stay up with just the single weight, but they dont, nevermind though, its got a lot better chance now, so thats a relief...  Tomoz, is "HOPFULLY" the day I can test the wheel, I have 8 weights, I need another 8 so they can act in pairs then I'm done..... I hope lol

Alex

[Alexioco]

Here is a bit of info about the wheel...

This diagram below is what the position of the "main" weights are like at any one time... the weights that do the helping hardly move from their positions so I omitted them for now... I wont tell you the action they are doing, but thats just what the position looks like... I will tell you this, one of the two weights on the left (the ones next to eachother) one of them is weightless, atleast, by its action, it seems  to be to me...

Alex

[mr_bojangles]

nice pic

are you rotating it clockwise?

that was my impression of it


you definitely have my attention

surely the key to OU is gravity, but we need to rethink what we use it for

personally ive never attempted a gravity wheel specifically, i think it needs to be used in combination with other things to achieve true OU

yet i always enjoy trying to think of a way to make any gravity wheel work



welll il try to help when u get ur testing done

good luck


until next time