A working ball wheel

[hartiberlin]

built a 3 plate version and it ran fine until one of the ball fell out the seam.

Hi Hammer,
did you videotape it ?
How long did it run ?
Did it selfaccelerate a bit or did you just give it a spin manually
and it just rotated from the push until the ball fell out ?

Can you rebuild it and show it in a video running ?
Many thanks.

[ken_nyus]

Would a software simulation show this as working?

[AB Hammer]

hartiberlin

No I didn't video tape it and I only have the patterns and here are a couple of photos of these. I am even showing the 8 pattern and if you look close you will see why I didn't use it. The sets of 3 work so much better.

For running it ran about 10 minuts before the ball fell out, and it got alot rougher towards the end it was tearing up bad so I only kept the patterns.

[hartiberlin]

Hi Hammer,
can you still show the actual unit ?
Or did you destroy it ?

So it did run 10 minutes overcoming friction ?
Without giving it a big push at start time ?


Can you build it up again and show it running in a video ?
Many thanks.

[AB Hammer]

Smeg! since I showed the patterns I will show you the second version. But not the 3rd version for it has something extra, and it will work just the same according to the math, as Besslers 12 ft wheel.