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We had a wind storm in December that blew tree limbs onto the roof of our house. I was removing the limbs when I noticed a small piece of wet paper stuck to the peak of the roof. It was a chinese fortune cookie, fortune. "You will soon receive helpful information for your project". Where d...

Hi Ralph RonS here. I would send this to you in private mail, but I don't know how to do that. I asked Scott how to send drawings and pictures, I sent them somewhere but they never made it to this board. I want to tell you about the wheel I have been working on, I came up with a new linkage between ...

Hi Ralph Just wanted to keep the conversation going. My daughter lives in Hermiston OR. and it is going to be over a 100 Degrees today, I don't remember your shop being air conditioned, so stay cool. If you can say do you think yours and James Kelly's design will be similar to Bessler's or a differe...

I have six wheels with so many holes they barely hold together, and boxes of levers with weights that I have varnished and painted so they will look good when it runs, so far it's not turning, but I saw a different arangement of levers from working with them that I did not see from drawing them on p...

Amen Ralph
I have often said, If we took this to an engineering class and said, this has been done. We want you to do it again. Don't care if you have to break any laws, don't leave this room until you have figured it out. I think it would be rediscovered in a short time.
Ron

Hi Winkle I made one like I thought you were describing and it would swing in and out at different times than you were saying, no way this will work. Then I reversed the hinges and amazing, the top would swing out at about 11:00 and the bottom would swing back at about 5:00 just before it would &quo...

Hi Scott
I am new to the group. could you explain what "keel" means in relation to the wheel turning around. The term is new to me.
Thanks RonS