Posted by grim (206.162.192.40) on September 22, 2003 at 15:20:56:
In Reply to: Re: Simanek posted by Michael on September 22, 2003 at 13:13:47:
Mike, the thing was built and verified in Australia by Brett Smith.
It did self-start, it did turn until it broke apart, repeatedly.
If there was a way to prevent its suicides, we didn't find it, and it
did not conform to eyewitness accounts of smooth rolloffs and runs, so
basically we got tired of playing with it and went on about the business of
conforming to what was described.
You know, it's kind of funny. Brett and I were playing with that thing last Christmas 2002.
In all that time, I've only seen Georg Kunstler, John Lindsay, and a few others, EVER post any
designs or real info on this board. Here we have authors, researchers, dabblers, etc with
probably more than 300 years total experience with different designs, yet it seems only
a few of us are willing to turn anything loose for anyone else to see.
If you doubt it, why don't you scroll down to the drawing and directions, and put it together yourself?
That's what we posted it for! I'm not a liar, neither is Smithy, so no fear here! In fact, if "Techstuff"
flipped that wheel photo of his over and picked his weights up off the bottom instead of hanging them down at the
top, he'd have basically the same thing and HIS would self-start, no pushing.
grim