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Shhhh, I work for a window company and I need to get my sales quota up this month! Yes, this is a window mechanism. I only have two of them on a flat wheel right now. Can't get parts until after the 6th of January as I am TRAPPED in a house full of dogs that I can't leave unattended. But with a ligh...

I thought this might deserve (for its few moments of life before those with far more experience rip it to shreds) its own thread. Hopefully what I have to say makes sense. After working on this silly thing for over 20 years now, I find that the mechanism seems to be available on the internet. You wo...

If you are using DC electricity for almost anything, that involves coils, motors, capacitors or whatever, it is the VOLTAGE hitting the cap, coil or motor (not as much) that is the most important. Try using this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/DC-DC-Boost-Converter-10-32V-to-12-35V-6A-Step-Up-Voltage-Charg...

Here is a brief crappy video of what I am working on. The device I am working with is called a "Four Bar Stainless steel Stay Rod" You would need 16 of these, or 8 pairs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLYvOuqwxH8 Here is a link to where you can get one. http://www.walmart.com/ip/10-Length...

sleepy, There are two arms connected to weight B. The one on the right is connected to weight A. If its connection is moved down the A shaft toward center, the leverage is increased and the need for a heavier weight at the A position is reduced. The farther down the A and B shafts you move BOTH conn...

rlortie, drawing #24 is the closest to what I am actually doing. The differences I have found in the experimentation I did are: 1. The arm that is pivoting needs to be connected to the hub at the exact same point as the fixed spoke. It DOES make a difference. 2. In drawing #24, each mechanism can on...

Here is what I have been attempting to build with a four foot wheel. I show how half of a single mechanism would fit on the wheel. There would be eight such mechanisms, each of which is really a pair, with the mirror image at the bottom of the wheel At TDC a weight falls to the right, overbalancing ...

Sorry for the poor sketch. This was the original sketch I had in my notebook. I realize that the weights are not symmetrical, which will cause problems, so I have been working on that. But it still shows the idea. Four setups like this in four sections or chambers of the wheel. Each chamber has wall...

I apologize in advance for not having taken the time, as some of you have, to read and research everything on this forum and others like it that reference Bessler's Wheel. I am not here often because of other projects, but this damn wheel is always in the back of my mind. It is a concept that keeps ...

Alan, I must confess, I haven't spent much time lately with the Bessler wheel. No real room in my tiny basement shop for builds. But that will soon be changing. Selling our place in the Bay area, pulling out all our equity, and downsizing to a smaller house in Gold Country here in California, but on...

Alan,
LOL! That design incorporates what I went to sleep thinking about last night, which was having the long arm able to reach past center to put its weight on the other side of the wheel. You have obviously tried that, so I won't waste my time.

Dave

Ralph, If I ever saw that design, I don't recall it. But perhaps something stuck in my head. I will never know. I tried something similar to this several years ago with hinged pieces and washers for weights that I posted on Youtube. This is a progression of that work. If I have infringed on the desi...

Thanks.I should know better. It's been a while since I posted here.

For some reason I can't post a picture. Could it be a format issue? It is a bmp. 16 bit

I have lots of Bessler Wheel builds that have not worked out the way I wanted them to. I submit the following idea, as I am sure SOMEONE has already tried something similar and will be able to tell me where I have gone wrong. Two weights connected to each other and at 90 degrees from each other, The...