Ricks Pipe Dream

[Lakes]

Here`s another (old) video.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJKTFZqu5Eo&NR=1

[rickoff]

Rick, I have been waiting for views of your new stator setup, but can't find it on yt.

Here is a link to a photo showing a section of test track laid upon a Masonite strip attached to the clear polycarbonate track base.  http://q6k2yq.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pVPrrniGKCQI4P64BbYJXHh8PW_9nEHbhCCv_61xChN1hcDIBhXxKMwhzC4YavBI_BbUMD3XUvcb0JCA2YRGYLw/Tracking%20System%20part%203-H.jpg

I have made up several of these adjustable Masonite arcs so that I can try out many varying tracking configurations and determine what works best.  The Masonite will then be used as a drilling template so that the polyurethane timing track can be attached directly to the clear polycarbonate track base.  I am currently working on the stator carriage and support mechanisms, and once these are completed then serious testing can begin.

Thanks for your continued interest,

Rick   

[onthecuttingedge2005]

If TK and or Sean A.K.A Clanzer can not get it to work then I don't think it will work. they are pretty dam smart and exceptional at engineering, I highly doubt they are wrong.

Jerry

[Cloxxki]

While I applaud TK's work in this, I think his approach is significantly different from Rick's, as TK's stator is moving in a circular/sine mannor (pardon lack of teck lingo). His stator is only shortly doing useful work.
Rick's stator will be more precisely timed, at reduced stator amplitude.
I had some simpler ideas to time the rotor and stator, more cude certainly than TK's, and I seem to recall Rick expressed his preference to more specifically place the stator, and not give it that cyclic nature. While his timing mechanism is bound to be higher-friction than TK's, I do leave room for his stator to produce more positive work per cycle. Can't wait for Rick's first attemps at a self-runner!

How has progress been for the pipe dream replicators? Rick is obviously investing a lot of time in the documentation and explanation process as he goes along, and could have completed his first version long ago not having to deal with that.

[ramset]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d4WWzWLP1k&feature=channel
Its that time
Chet