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will i get a 1/8th turn or more is what i am asking Wheeler you need to take toe top one out and put two at the bottom Ignore the "Y axis" or the height of the weights. Using only the "X axis" add the distance off all the weights on the left side of the axel together and add the...

winkle wrote: all weight on left is applyed at the rim of wheel
all weight on right is applyed out side the rim

Sounds like a fan to me!
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True but obviously if all the weights were rigidly connected to the wheel they would not maintian the position shown as the wheel rotated. They have to move some way. LOL
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Winkie you can't get a difinitive answer to "the weights are hooked to the wheel some way, some how, some where, will it run. If the weights applied their load on the wheel at the positions shown in your sketch it should run. How they are attached to the wheel however will determine where those...

LOL, Wheeler are you crowning him "Winkie Bessler"?
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If all the weights are applied at the edge of the wheel then you would have to ignore that some are outside the wheel and some are inside the wheel. Where the load is applied is what will determine whether it will run or not. The weight itself can be in the next county.
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It matters if they're fixed or on pivots and where the pivots are located. Looks like 2 weights at the bottom and none at the top, did you mean to do that?
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Depends on how they're hooked to the wheel.
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I'm excited.....it gets better? OK, I'm ready! :0)
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Don't forget to turn the light off when you leave! :0)
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BOOOOOOOOO!!!
LOL
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You do know what happens when you play country music backwards???
You get your dog back, your truck back, your wife back.....
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One would think they would use it at least in Washington DC.
:0)
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Scotty I think what they are suggesting is that the fountain would be powered by a pump driven by Besslers wheel.
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"IMO Leibniz would have probably been interested in Bessler's device in an attempt to refute and knock Newton off his pedestal."

I get that all the time too.
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