Easy Gravity wheel

[Bizzy]

Forgive me for interupting here but maybe I can help.  Simply renaming a file does not convert that file to another type.  Your document is still a pdf even though you renamed it as jpg.  Many freeware utilities can do this for you.  I like PrintKey2000.  Open your pdf in a reader - launch Printkey2000 and capture the area you want in your jpg and save that capture as a jpg.  When you attach this saved file to your post, it will display correctly.  Hope this helps!

Hi Brad\
Thanks great advise!!!
Bizzy

[wattsup]

Forgive me for interupting here but maybe I can help.  Simply renaming a file does not convert that file to another type.  Your document is still a pdf even though you renamed it as jpg.  Many freeware utilities can do this for you.  I like PrintKey2000.  Open your pdf in a reader - launch Printkey2000 and capture the area you want in your jpg and save that capture as a jpg.  When you attach this saved file to your post, it will display correctly.  Hope this helps!

You are right about the pdf format. So I just downloaded the file as is. Changed the extension to pdf and opened it. No problem.

I grabbed so the image is here.

But again this will not work. The top is dead center so it cancels itself. The extended side to the right equals the left and bottom being on the other side.

wattsup

[Bizzy]

You are right about the pdf format. So I just downloaded the file as is. Changed the extension to pdf and opened it. No problem.

I grabbed so the image is here.

But again this will not work. The top is dead center so it cancels itself. The extended side to the right equals the left and bottom being on the other side.

wattsup

How about if the tubes were tilted down at a slight angle which would have the metal balls rolling down sooner?
Thanks
Bizzy

[Bizzy]

How about if the tubes were tilted down at a slight angle which would have the metal balls rolling down sooner?
Thanks
Bizzy

Here is what I meant by angling the tubes more downward.
Let me know what you think
Bizzy

[wattsup]

@Bizzy

No matter how you change the angles, one side will enjoy it, and, the other will hate it. As beneficial as it can be to one side, it will be equally detrimental to the other side.

Try and draw your idea with a real drawing program and once it is done, make a copy and then take that copy and rotate is about 2 degrees. Then draw some straight lines through the center of each shifting weight where they are at their new position. You will eventually see at which degrees the device just fails.

We have all been through this exercise many times.

From what I have learned of these wheels, you would require movements that create at least 5-10 different events for a wheel to have any decent "chance" of turning on its own. That means what? If your wheel has 10 equal sections, then each takes up 36 degrees and in that 36 degrees, at each 3.6 to 6 degrees something has to shift in favor of the direction of rotation. The more events you have, the smaller the shifts that are required to maintain rotation, and the more chance you have of capitalizing on momentum, weight shift, etc.

The less sections you have, the less chances of getting it going. But technically speaking, even if you had 20 sections or more, you have to know in advance that what you are trying is next to impossible, but hey, when did the impossible stop us.

wattsup