New Wheel Design

[Alexioco]

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

Yes, it is meant to turn clockwise, like I keep saying in my earlier posts, I dont know if it will work or not, I recon its a 50-50 chance, the levers for the wheel are now done and installed, half the weights are installed, on monday I should be buying the pins to install the final 8 weights, then I will get some padding so they dont brake through the force, then I shall test it. The day I test it is unknown, but it should not be to long now... I have had a few problems to overcome with this wheel, but its on its way now. Most of you would laugh at its simplicity and could probably make it within a few days, but my experience in this is not that high, so it takes me time...

A few more interesting things now for me to say... I have tried just letting the wheel go (not spinning it) with half of the amount of weights in, and it turns about half a revolution, so I suspect that when they are all added, the wheel will turn half a revolution without a push, when its pushed, the weights will lift themselves up and hopfully keep the wheel going, but we will just have to wait and see... Dont expect to much, because like I say, its a 50-50 chance...

P.S Thanks mr_bojangles for your support, much appreciated

Alex

[overtaker]

Mr.Bojangles......What a great name ( and song )!

Alex, your building skills will improve with every prototype.

Mr. AB Hammer had some nice things to say about you in a conversation I had with him.

He likes your enthusiasm and creative mind.

So do I.

Good luck.   

[Alexioco]

Mr.Bojangles......What a great name ( and song )!

Alex, your building skills will improve with every prototype.

Mr. AB Hammer had some nice things to say about you in a conversation I had with him.

He likes your enthusiasm and creative mind.

So do I.

Good luck.   

Thanks very much , I admire you anf AB Hammer (plus other various members) for your knowledge that you have posted/shared with me and I also thank AB Hammer for trusting me with some of his designs... your support is fantastic and I have never seen such members from any other sites that know what they are talking about as much as some of the members here.

Thanks

Alex

[Alexioco]

Little update: I tried letting the wheel go with half of the amount of weights, when the wheel starts to move and the weights fly upwards, it causes the wheel to accelerate for a second, seems good, but just as Bessler once said on MT 18, seeming is different from being...

If it works, I want to leaving it running all night then see if it's still moving the following morning, meaning I will need a place to put it as it will be quite noisey which brings me to a question...  What can I use as padding for when the weights hit the bar at the top of the wheel? Because they bounce off the bar. Would foam be a could choice? or is it too bouncey?

Alex

[0c]

What can I use as padding for when the weights hit the bar at the top of the wheel? Because they bounce off the bar. Would foam be a could choice? or is it too bouncey?

Depends on what you want the weight to do. Do you want it to bounce (use a material with a lot of elasticity, like steel)? ... or do you want the bar to absorb the ball's energy and then let gravity take over (use foam or something with low elasticity). Seems to me you would want to retain as much of the weight's energy as possible, so you should probably use a highly elastic material and a firmly mounted bar.

A picture or 2 showing how the weights impact the bar would help.