Roll on the 20th June

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Happy Birthday Archer Quinn ..

Can't wait to see your final videos of that working wheel and some replications from others ..
The courtyard here is very quite all of a sudden ;-) 
They say you can't have your cake and eat it too ..  but i'm not so sure about that anymore either ! 

Thanks 4 @ll the fish
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[EvilToeKnee]

sm0key2, if you're in the States like I am you are sure to have a Parker store or even a Graingers.  It's a toy store of fittings and such.

Even though it's only the 19th here, Happy B-day Archer!  Don't expect spankings either....

EvilToeKnee

[shakman]

Hey all, long time listener, first time poster (well... ffirst post or a long time anyway - I haven't been on here for some time).

I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Archer has been inspirational regardless of whether this ends up working or not. He has had us all thinking outside the box so I feel that this will lead us somewhere.

Anyway, I've posted a few ideas over at the soapz google group. My most recent one is to have the inner and outer wheel magnets mirrored in the same orientation on the other side of the wheel (i.e. as if they went "through the wheel) and have arms on the opposite side at (360/# of arms/2) degrees rotation (i.e. "in-between" the arms on the first side) with magnets set in opposite orientation so as to spin in the opposite direction. So the arms on side #1 drive the wheel clockwise, walk around the other side and the arms on side #2 of the wheel are driving anti-clockwise, giving additional drive at each half firing interval on the first side.

It might even be possible to have the fixed magnets "around" the wheel so each magnet can serve the arms on both sides. As the arms are at different firing intervals on each side ((360/# of arms/2) degrees) then the individual magnets would only ever be firing one arm at a time so there shouldn't be any "drain" effect.

In my head I can see this creating further inbalance and would at the very least give a 50% performance increase - who knows, it could be the key to getting huge increases. Unfortunately I'm much mightier on paper than I am with tools - but I'm working on it.

Anyone have any ideas on this?

BTW HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARCHER - YOU CHAMPION! I'll have some cold ones in your honour this weekend.

Oops... 5am - better get to bed.

Brendan

[purepower]

Yep, all quiet...

(crickets chirping, followed by uncomforting silence)

It the 20th in the land of the kangaroos. So why is my gas still $4.80?

Let me check Archie's tube vids...

Oh, that explains it.

Nothing more to say on the Newtonian side. Anything further on Archie and we'd be beating a dead horse.

So, anyone want to talk about other possibilities?

-PurePower

PS I love how his site now says the power isn't in the extensions, and therefor are not needed. Didnt I make a few long posts about this? Yes, I did. Wasn't this also the same issue he focused the entire "Newtonian View" page on, calling me an idiot and liar for saying they are useless? Yes, it was. Funny now that he understands that page is not there. I accept your appology, no hard feelings. Happy Bday, sorry things didnt turn out the way we all hoped...

[Mr.Entropy]

It's still very early in Australia, dude.  Hold your gloating for another 16 hours or so.  In the meantime, you can have fun imagining him trying to get it to work.