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After many experiments I have determined that the weights used were not enough to create the rotation required because with manual positioning at 1pm and only a horizontal bar pivoted , it drops and rotates to 8 pm. So my point about more robust is correct and I will pursue that in the weeks ahead. ...

After several unsuccessful attempts and constructing this idea I got one assembled BUT The 6 half inch washer weights are not enough to shift and drop an rotate. I used 3 16 in. bicycle wheels with tubes but no tires. I will have to make it much more robust to increase the weight for a more valid te...

To further grasp the idea I refer you to MT138 in which I see two people with a weight that goes up and down on a parallelogram seesaw. If these two lean back and forth the seesaw will cycle up and down as we all understand. But when one side is down in order to cycle back up two men and weights mus...

The principle Inspired by this drawing... mt drawings mt138 has 2 men moving oppositely up and down shifting their weight weights right and left... https://web.archive.org/web/20100920141607/http://www.besslerwheel.com/wiki/index.php?title=MT_1-20 With one weight going up and the other simultaneousl...

The two wheels rotate on an axle where they mesh so they are kept aligned to each other. They could be arms with weights on them but for visual understanding/comprehension I draw them as wheels. The small circles represent visual positions of the 2 weighs for understanding/comprehension. So as the t...

Drawing correction. The 2 wheels must be offset and pivoted at the black dot as in this drawing.
Norman

Attached is a better drawing where you can see the weights...Red goes CW and green goes CCW. I am thinking a ratchet arrangement between the wheels that slides to connect the belt to a wheel opposite opposite turning vs a wheel same rotation turning. So the reset direction correction becomes a shift...

Correction. The small circles are weight positions with only 1 weight on each wheel. So starting off with the top weight at noon and the bottom weight at 6 the top wheel/weight turns CW dropping the weight down and shifting it to the right further from the axle and the bottom wheel turns CCW with th...

I have imagined and made numerous designs that pair a weight going up with one going down to minimize the work in and simultaneously shifting the CG left and right as they also rotate. Thereby creating a CG change for a minimal amount of work in. This works well for the first half of the rotation. O...

My Mt138 drawing is attached showing a vertical plum line and shifted to the right it is right side heavy. And the mass is lowered as well but when flipped over it is bottom heavy and hangs in the center at the plum line.
Norman

What I see in Mt138 is the hammers equally going up and down but also shifting left and right and the heads also shifting left and right. Today I will measure those forces to see how they balance each other and also unbalance the entire mechanism.
Norman

Below is clearly bottom heavy. That is the first thing I look for.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hNygez_Qn8E
Norman

I made a quick mockup of the weights. Using 2 shifted right makes it rotate right and then adding the weight at the top makes it rapidly rotate clockwise like a pendulum to 10 am. I am not good at the simulators so I will leave that up to you and I do not have gears to try this out. I strongly hesit...

Here is a little better drawing. The question is Can the mass be moved 7 cm from DD to AA?
Remember we have inertia and levereage and mass balance all working hopefully in proper coordination.
Norman

Here is my concept of wheels/rollers etc. see drawing. The drawing shows 4 positions but does not represent 4 rotating wheels but 2 rotating wheels. It shifts the mass to the right and up in both the top and lower half of the circle thus causing a continuous desired top heavy mass.
Norman