New Wheel Design

[broli]

You could use those kitchen sponges.

[Alexioco]

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.

I need somthing that will absorb the impact of the weights when they hit the bar so they dont bounce back down to the axle, so maybe foam?

Tomoz is the day all of the weights will be installed which then means it could be tested, but I dont want the weighted levers smashing themsevles to pieces lol... So I will try and get some foam.

Alex

[AquariuZ]

If you absorb the impact all the kinetic energy the weight had will be lost into the material you use to absorb the impact.

If you are planning on using the impact to drive the wheel this may not be the best idea..

Just a thought

AZ

[Alexioco]

Ok all, this is the moment we have been waiting for, the machine/wheel has been tested (without the foam for absorbing the weights)  and the results are: It does not self run... when I spin the wheel, I can feel a lot of force as the weights push down, but it still comes to a stop, I would think, because its not a self starter then thats why it stops, having said that, the wheel has no start or end to "how" the mechanism works, to start the wheel off, you have to throw a weight upwards at the same time as pushing the wheel in order for them to exercise their movement...

Now that I have satisfied my question, we can now work on this wheel because I'm sure you will really like how it works, but before I show you, I would like to say, I dont mind people using my idea into one of their wheels so long as you alert me on PM or Email... thanks

P.S I'm now going to look for the connection for my cam so I can post how the wheel works, pictures will be supplied too...

Alex

[overtaker]

Thanks Alex.   I'm looking forward to see how it takes two revolutions to make one movement.

Sorry to hear your wheel isn't a runner.   Is it possible to change the weight ( more or less ) and try some more?