The Bessler Wheel, mystery solved.

[gurangax]

gurangax,
Found this threat yesterday, what a great puzzle.
I found the peacock you are talking about.
Now thinking out loud, I guess the heavy weights are attached at the tilting poles on which ropes (E) are attached.
The ropes will pull the light inner weights to the rim between 12 and 6 o'clock.
Some other mechanism pulls the light weight back to the center at 6 o'clock (the y-ax mechanism)?

Bert

It shouldn't be too complicated. anyway all of his published drawings wont work, the key is the z axis, if you are working on a 3 dimensional plane of forces you might find other mechanism that work i mean other variations of it.


regards

[Marsing]

................... anyway all of his published drawings wont work, ..................

regards

are you sure ?

[bbem]

My last guess, is this the z-axis mechanism?


Bert

[gurangax]

are you sure ?

he destroyed all evidence. well if you think there is somewhere in his published drawings which work why dont you try to figure it out.

[gurangax]

My last guess, is this the z-axis mechanism?


Bert

try reading all my post in this thread. anyway the closest to any is here http://www.besslerwheel.com/wiki/index.php?title=MT_121-143#MT_138-141