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Quite a few spelling and grammar errors in that little snippet. Genius, performed, opposition etc.

Yes, it should be easy enough to route a slot around the perimeter of the flywheel then run a string around the circumference as pequade suggested. I can load up the wheel with 20kg weights so it is heavy balanced, then compare the "fling" results with those without the weight attached. ie...

Pequade, in my mind this is just a scaled up vertical version of the cylinder & spheres with rigid swing arms instead of string attaching the spheres. Man I wish I knew how to create GIF animations. When i say the swing arms need to be reset they need to be reset back to the "inwards" ...

Fletcher, having thought about it a bit more I think I will go ahead and complete it. As you say, theres not that much more to be done on it and at least I wont be left wondering. As I posted in another topic my belief in Pequades "Principle of excess momentum" :) was shattered when i read...

Yeh sorry, the attachments need to be read bottom to top. I had considered the use of a small spring more for resetting the swing arms than anything else.

For giggles, heres my half made model without the weights attached and without the swing arms.

The swing arm/small weight assembly is latched to the flywheel from the tdc to bdc. When the arms swing out they take the momentum of the flywheel and stop it like the cylinder and spheres. The swing/small weight assembly unlatches from the flywheel and rotates to the top again. It's similar to Brol...

I was a believer in Pequades momentum gain theory and had the idea which I have attached below. I actually got a fair way through construction then decided that i no longer think you can gain momentum with a heavy balanced wheel and a small overbalance weight. What do you think? Should i complete th...

Greendoor, from http://www.vias.org/physics/bk2_05_03.html "Momentum cancels with momentum in the opposite direction" "A spinning top has zero total momentum, because for every moving point, there is another point on the opposite side that cancels its momentum. It does, however, have ...

Is the string/wire the ball attached to a spring? Or just a normal string/wire? If it's a spring the excess energy comes from stretching the spring to setup.