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Bessler's drawings look very similar to Leonardo DaVinci's in style and composition.

Partial assembly of the Apologia Wheel.

Decided against using a sand mold. Found a Bush's Beans can that's 3 3/16" diameter. Washed it out, then burned the inside coating and brushed that out too. I put the can on a piece of wood on a 5lb postage scale. Hit the tare button to zero the scale, then poured the lead in until the scale re...

Besides Bessler, C. Wade McClusky at the Battle of Midway, has been great motivator to keep going with searching for PM.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Wade_McClusky

The long slit is for a 1/8" dia. axle.

Hello.
Enclosed is another part for my PM idea. It is not a crank even though it looks similar to the axle crank on the wheel engravings.

Thanks for the idea. I looked that up. I need the weights to be solid though and to fit in the allotted spaces. What could be done maybe is make the entire pattern from whatever wax is used in the lost wax method. The weights are small but have to be of accurate mass. Accurate. Like what a 3D printe...

IMG_2024-06-09-214138.jpeg . The picture is of a pattern being laid down by my 3D printer. The lattice infill is added by the program automatically. I use Shapr3D. So when the pattern is done, I will put it in a sand mold to pour lead into. Never have done this before. The hotend extruder is out of...

WM has saved me a lot of time and expense. I have a test wheel on ball bearings and I've tested the behavior of both.
Like screw a weight near the perimeter and let it fall. It ends up exactly the same on WM. Done the same with weighted levers. With friction and without. It shows the difference.

Just think if another working wheel was built, how it would upset Newton's laws of motion, and the four laws of thermodynamics.
Would everything have to be rewritten?
Would the person discovering how to do it again be a shoo in for the Abel Prize?

George Bernard Shaw

Goethe.

The best lead I can give now is that the prime mover has four weights that have to move in a straight line.

File 404 now on Bill McMurtry MT link
Hope he's OK.

In Shakespeare, Hamlet tells Horatio that "there are more things in heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy."