Hypothesis .. Raising GPE without using Law of Levers ? ..

[Tarsier79]

If the journals screwed out so the wheel could be translocated or inspected, it would not be a good place to drive a pendulum from.

[daxwc]

Tarsier79 : If the journals screwed out so the wheel could be translocated or inspected, it would not be a good place to drive a pendulum from.

The journals are not the crank handles/ axle

A plain bearing or Journal is a solid sleeve inside which a shaft is expected to rotate with acceptable precision (location and guidance) and no metallic contact.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=plain+bea ... e0&pc=U531

The journal is the brass contact surface made to wear; so you don't damage the shaft but always just replace the journal/bearing. So if the sleeve actually screwed out what does that mean? I assumed the was little keeper bolts? They would be underneath the shaft and indented into the brass a ways and when the journal wore down too much the bolt would start making contact with the shaft making a hell of a squealing signalling you need to change the bearings or ruin the shaft. I could be wrong. Having the bearings made to be pulled out for translocation meant no C or G cut in pillar?

The brass in the picture is the journal.

[daxwc]

You do bring up a good question about the axle/crank handles T79. Stewart made his concept off MT 62. You can see in the big mills the wood is banded together unless this locked them in somehow.

You might be right that maybe would make the pendulums not really for long time running but maybe tuning. Need a static position balance.
1) Bessler has made the pillars specifically to have something to hang the pendulums off of.
2) Or the pendulums are a diversion for the pillars/posts.

Which came first the chicken or the egg.

[daxwc]

I don't think the axle screws in. It is more like the axle above and has a plate in the other plane that is banded in.