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I feel like I have been branded a heretic----------------Sam

SHADOW, It doesn't matter if a cross-bar is horizontal or vertical, or some where in between. If it is pushed to one side or the other, the wheel will turn in that direction. It doesn't have to be just at 9 & 3. It will work when it is vertical, 12 & 6. It may not seam like it but, it does. ...

Hi SHADOW, The rollers are totally independent of the phase of the wheel. At any position, if the rollers are moved to the right, they will cause the wheel to turn CW. All of them. As the wheel rotates, the exact center of the cross-bar(s). is fixed in space, always down. It's like the wheel rotates...

SHADOW, I see a better way, if it would work that is. Go back to the cross bars, 4 of them, with a pin through the centers of them. Then, with bearings, shift that pin / shaft a little to one side or the other, which would shift all of the rollers at the same time; continuously. It should go like he...

SHADOW, I think you have a hot idea! The more I think about it the better I like it. The eccentric wheel would probably have to be stationary; for it to work. Normally that would be a killer! However, with roller bearings on every thing, maybe not----------------Sam ETA, I guess the Ecc. wheel would...

Hi SHADOW! I see. Yes, I never would have thought of that. They, the rollers only have to roll or shift a little bit, and the wheel will turn. How about another wheel Connected to all 8 rollers,(in some way), but offset from the center line a few mm, so that it would continuously roll them to one si...

As always SHADOW, it's beautiful!! Can't talk now, problems to deal with----------------Sam

ECC1, I think you are right, about the others I mean.

As usual no response of any kind for my latest idea. Apparently, It has been deemed unworthy of consideration.
Why, why is that? I will never understand--------------------Sam

a follow up,
I'll try a double throw crank shaft in the center. The roller cross-bar drives the crank and the crank shaft will drive 4 long rods with weights at the outer ends, like a radial aircraft engine. Will see what that does-------------Sam

Robinhood,
Two pendulums one on each side, one for each arm fixed to the wheel with a cam for lifting the arms back up on the up side-------------Sam

Robinhood, tha4,
I was thinking of a pendulum on each side. On the up side it would have a cam to lift the arm back up. Just an idea-----------------Sam

Thanks thx4! I'm glad some body reads my BS------------Sam

Hi SHADOW, Very artistic!! I think the rollers are better suited for lifting or shifting the turning weights, rather than driving the wheel. They are bigger and stronger to do the work of lifting. As you say, they are the 'Ballast', and fits in with Besslers principle of excess weight, if that means...

Not working but kind of the right idea. It's like two weights aren't enough to sustain rotation. It needs to be more like MT-15. I think it had 12 weights; maybe it wouldn't need that many but, say at least 4 to keep it going. I'll try some thing like that, some thing with more driving weights------...

Not working. No surprises-------------Sam