Sjack Abeling Gravity Wheel and the Worlds first Weight Power Plant

[ruggero]

Very good, Omnibus.

If you need any help from my hand, please don't hesistate to ask for it.
Keep me posted on the drawings, please.

Another thing:

Do you have any thought about the "dog" catch at the rim end of the grooves?

From the video of Abeling's wheel it seems very clear that they are not hockey stick, but round holes that will fit the axis of them weights...the "dog" catch (and CF) would prevent the weight from falling back into the grooves between 01:00 and 04:00.

When the weight hit the "oval guided track" at 05:00 the force will push out the weight from the "dog" catch.

Which bring me to another thought:

Could it be, that the weight was attached inside the grooves by a spring (tension spring mounted close to wheel axis)?

ruggero  ;-)

[Omnibus]

@X00013,

I'm ready with one example of @Rusty's rotor, following your instructions (see attached). You explanation was very clear and everything went well until I got into the need to scale it down. That was the most difficult part.

Now, next, it has to be understood how the track is to be drawn conveniently and I'll appreciate it very much if you could help with that too. I'm stuck with the following problem (it applies to the rotor too but now that it's done, I'm focusing on the track) -- the dimensions in SolidEdge are in mm while when saved as dxf and imported into wm2d they are automatically converted into meters. So, OK, I'm considering that when I get to draw in SolidEdge the mm are in fact meters and I draw everything accordingly. Further, if I consider the lower left edge as the beginning of the coordinate system and draw everything around it, the sketch is imported all right into wm2d. Here's the problem, however. Together with the sketch this nasty form with the various details about the drawing at the lower right corner is also imported and there's no way in the world it can be scaled down. Thus, my question is, is there a way to get rid of this useless mess and have only the desired drawing be saved as dxf so that the importing and further dealing with it in wm2d become straightforward? Also, would it be easier to do it in SolidWorks? I'd like to avoid AutoCAD altogether. Thanks.

[Omnibus]

@ruggero,

Let me figure out several things. Will keep you posted. Thanks for your willingness to help.

[AquariuZ]

Reply in today.

Na overleg met de beleidsdirectie en bij navraag bij het ministerie van Economische Zaken kunnen wij u het volgende antwoord geven.

Alle omgevingsvergunningen worden in eerste instantie altijd afgegeven door de desbetreffende gemeente. Daarnaast kan het bij grootschalige projecten nog wel eens voorkomen dat deze vergunning wordt afgegeven door de Provincie.
Ik wil u dan ook adviseren om met de juiste gemeente contact op te nemen.

TRANSLATION

After discussion with the policy management team and a inquire with the Minitry of Ecomic affairs we can let you know the following:

All environmental licensing is handled primarily by each individual municipality. When it concerns large scale projects licenses can occaisionally be granted by the province as well.

Therefor I would advise you to contact the correct municipality directly.

In other words: they do not know or are unsure.

I will send a request to the municipality of Groningen and let you know.

AZ

EDIT: Done. Requests for information out to both the municipality and the province of Groningen.

[AquariuZ]

Something just occured to me:

Why are the weights in the left side of the Abeling "D" overlapping?

What could be the significance, and if accurate depiction how could that be engineered?