Sjack Abeling Gravity Wheel REAL World Replications

[Cloxxki]

Great work again Dusty!

Let us know when you're ready for specific suggestions of big changes in geometry and dimensions. So far, you've a really neat machine there!

[AB Hammer]

Hay Dusty

After you have exhausted your attempts. get in touch with me.

[AquariuZ]

Time for the weekly update.  I finished the ramps and as you will see in the videos I need to do more work on the ramps and see if I can reduce friction.  I'm going to line the ramp surfaces with sheetmetal and also on the curved slots on the wheel.  I'm optimistic that I will figure out a way to make this gravity wheel work, also I will report the bad with the good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdTJ9tqd4VA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dxKPF_Yq6o

Dusty

Poetry in motion, you are a true craftsman...

What do you think of my idea of attaching the dumbbell shafts to the axle with springs?

I am trying to model such a setup.

Your wheel is awesome!

[AquariuZ]

Hay Dusty

After you have exhausted your attempts. get in touch with me.

Drinks? Pick you up at eight?

[LarryC]

Just wanted to pass on an observation from Dusty's latest video. The first video of the two before he changed the upper stand guide showed how a jam was occurring. In the first pic below you can see how the two surfaces that the rollers are hitting are almost parallel.

If smaller rollers were used or offset rollers then the weight rod would be at the black dot area and the two surfaces would not be parallel. This is also causing a significant difference in the intended location of the opposing weights as can be seen in the Sjack guiding stand picture or in Fig 4 of the patent. This difference could cause a loss of needed energy.

If you expand the Sjack guiding stand pic, note that at the 14.5 line (top center) you can reach close to parallel if you get to far out because of large rollers.

Regards, Larry