Posted by Scott Ellis (216.87.95.64) on March 04, 2002 at 20:54:29:
In Reply to: another approach posted by R.Roedig on March 01, 2002 at 22:18:39:
Hi R, thanks for your post. I encourage your experiments and hope you'll keep us posted of developments.
One thing to watch out for in "recirculated ball weight" schemes, is the rate at which the balls are falling and being lifted back up. Usually the fatal flaw in these schemes is that the balls are falling at a slightly faster rate than they are being lifted back up, so the machine eventually runs out of balls at the top.
Good luck!
-Scott
: Hi Scott, I assume this is your website - very nice job! I'd just like to go on record here with another idea I think will work. Not exactly the Bessler wheel, but close. I jury rigged a protoype with a bicycle wheel to see if the idea has merit and it appears ok. Next step is to make a real prototype. I'm a mech engineer and have access to a machine shop, but need to work on the design. It would work on simple recirculation of ball weights- (yeah, that's what they all say). But I like what Oystein has said, that we need to be open in our thinking: you may have that one idea that works, but dismiss it because you think "why wasn't this done before?", so I'll give it a try.