Roll on the 20th June

[noonespecial]

Here's is my understanding of Archer's latest project (with apologies to Archer if I screw this up):

We have a typical Class 1 Lever with a 10:1 ratio. Let's put a 2 pound weight at the 10' point of the long arm and an 8 pound bowling ball at the 1' point on the short arm. Basically 20 pounds lifting 8 pounds. I think we can all agree with this so far.

Let's complicate the lever by attaching a cable at the end of the long arm...up, over and down 2 pulleys to an empty wire form carrier that will accept the 8 pound bowling ball. Let assign 1 pound to this portion.

Effectively we now have 1 pound of weight at the end of our 10' lever (2 pound weight pulling downward and 1 pound pulling up).

However we still have the 10:1 balance ratio so we now have 10 pounds lifting 8 pounds. Should still work at this point.

Once the 1 pound weight falls to its lowest point, we tip the bowling ball out of position into the wire form carrier.

We now have 9 pounds of falling weight lifting lifting the 2 pound weight and 10' arm back to its original position.

We extract the bowling ball from the wire form and roll it back on to the original 1' position and cycle continues..........

[Glassglue]

OH CRAP A GOD A DEITY and one that gambles [bad moral stature] that was close WWHHHEEEWW...   Chet
@ gless are you sniffing that glue or making lite of men dying

No sweetcheeks, I'm making 'lite' of you.

[oak]

It is my understanding the perm mags at 1-2 o'clock will not have a wall because they are pulling, is that correct?

The perm mags at 1-2 o'clock also have a potential "wall" at the 2 o'clock end, because they can grab & hold the rod.  The trick (in theory) is to taper off the mags, or have them gradually curve farther away, as you approach the 2 or 2:30 end, so that the wall dissipates.

[ramset]

Glass you definitely sniffin to much glue     noticed any drewling or uncontrolled head banging   your personality shows signs of the late stage psychosis  thinking kids  dying is funny  pretending its not true

[House]

@oak

What do you think about the one way catch? If the perm or electromag can push the rod up, then you wouldn't need perm mags at 1-2 (avoiding the dreaded sticking spot ("wall")).