Sjack Abeling Gravity Wheel and the Worlds first Weight Power Plant

[AquariuZ]

Here the snapshot again with adjusted lighting.

You can clearly see the two barriers or stoppers located between the wheel layer and the stand.

This leads me to believe that the weights are indeed extended axle dumbbells.

This also makes me think I have figured out the concept.

Time will tell!

PS: There is a very good reason why Abeling did not want the device filmed from the front near the axle area because you would clearly see the stoppers...

Sorry Sjack, but do not worry you will still get all the credit and be rich & alive. 

[AquariuZ]

Geachte heer,

Naar aanleiding van uw aanvraag deel ik u hierbij mede, dat Henkel nauw betrokken is bij de "verlijmingsvraagstukken" van het project van de heer Abeling met betrekking tot de Gewicht Energie Centrale. Het betreft een serieus project. Voor verdere informatie verwijzen wij u graag door naar de heer Abeling.

Met vriendelijke groet / best regards,

Rom Rombouts
National Account Manager

Henkel Nederland B.V.
Adhesive Technologies
Building
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TRANSLATION

Dear Sir,

With regards to your request for information we confirm that Henkel is closely involved with the "glue attachment challenges" of the project of Mr. Abeling with regards to the Weight Power Plant. It is indeed a serious project. For further information we refer you to Mr. Abeling.

With kind regards,

Rom Rombouts
National Account Manager

Henkel Nederland B.V.
Adhesive Technologies
Building
T:  +31.(0)30.6073437
F:  +31.(0)30.6045271
M: +31.(0)6.43372124

Good enough for me...

[mondrasek]

Gents,

The way to make the "Newton's Cradle" energy transfer work in WM2D has to do with the property "elastic".  You can wikipedia elasticity for the details.  But in layman's terms:  Lowering the elastic property makes an object absorb energy.  It becomes more like a ball of clay and will not bounce.  Raising the elasticity to it's maximum of 1 makes it return all of it's energy.  So it becomes super hard and will bounce forever, returning to the same height from which it is initially dropped.  Of course the surface you are dropping onto also needs to have an elasticity of 1.

Might be time to look up the elasticity of glass, though I am of the mind that this is actually a reference to fiberglass, which was also mentioned very early in this thread.

Great find with the external cam profiles in the video.  I had thought this must be a part of the whole so it's nice to see it in the pictures.

Now, where is the extra energy coming from that launches the weights up the ramp?  He says he gathers it in the lower left, or between 6 and 9 o'clock, right?

M.

[mondrasek]

Food for thought attached.

M.

[i_ron]

I have overlaid the barriers as I understand it from the video footage. Please check the screen shots I posted...
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I hope you can now see what I mean...

AGAIN: SEVEN WEIGHTS ON THE LEFT - NINE ON THE RIGHT. HERE IS YOUR "D".

Aquariuz,

Excellent deductions! This is a very good start. Thanks for posting as a screen shot as I can't read
the wm2d files.

My only quibble is that your pocket shape is not correct... the deep part of the pocket should end
just at transition point where the axle is handed over from the inner guide to the outer guide.

The other point is the two dissimilar pocket shapes... are there perhaps two different actions
taking place? Eight following one path and eight following a different path? With the dropping of
an inner path weight acting to 'lift' the other?

Ron