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I assume that you are just being sarcastic replying to a post made like 21 years ago. I doubt that VergingOnDone has been waiting for your reply all that time...

If, as I assume, he had one or two helpers, the time would be much less than thought, as he would have used them to carry the weights between the wheel and storage box (and vice versa) while he installed/uninstalled them in the wheel. It would have taken him all day if he had to do all the work hims...

Wheel framework @bout 60 lbs
Wheel rim @ 20 lbs
Covering (heavy/oiled cloth) @ 25 lbs
Axle @ 20 lbs
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I'd say about 125 lbs, give or take a few

My rough calculations are that there were only about 180 lbs of weights max (but more likely 160. We'll know once we figure it out... ;-)

johannesbender wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 7:27 pm Hope your assistant doesn't run off and tells everyone it was cranked next door .

LOL, he'd never do that. But he does complain that it's too cramped for him to run along the inside of the rim to turn it... ;-)

This is a Gera-size wheel (it was a real pain to build.. ;-) 50 inches in diameter, 4 inches thick (it will be closer to 5 if/when the outer casing is put on.) The bearing blocks weigh more than the framework(!) and the wheel spins freely on the axle. The support base was made to fold up so that it ...

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hmmm, nope, it won't let me in, so I guess I'm not human... ;-)

It is also reasonable to assume that if these weights (as part of one of these mechanisms) did not have some distance between them that Bessler had no reason not to just clump them together in the form of a bigger single weight. Having worked with lead weights, smaller weights would have been easie...

Floor to ceiling support posts would serve one main purpose: To keep the wheel from falling over sideways if it was only mounted on floor supports (you need a lot of bracing to keep the uprights from shifting sideways, being only 2 connections for a framework (basically |_|), instead of floor to cei...

I see the post moving up & down as evidence of an out-of-balance motion in the wheel. When the mass is at one point, it's momentum is "lifting" the wheel; When the mass is at the opposite point, it's "pushing down". An out-of-balance flywheel or gyroscope would probably exhib...

If pendulums were used, they most likely would have been mentioned in the German newspapers of the time, covering the public demonstrations. Has anyone looked them up? If there were eyewitness accounts, that would be the place to find them...

I tried it, Not working. All of you win again; and I'm afraid always will--------------------------Sam "Not working" is par for the course for our search. ;-) Don't let it get you down. Look at it to see why it didn't work, then work around the problem. Same thing happened to my latest ex...

Roxaway59 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 9:33 pm (...)a mysterious silver sphere (...)
The sphere is about 4 to 5 feet in diameter and (...)
They x-rayed it and (...)

Q1: Is there an x-ray machine that big?
and
Q2: How did they fit the sphere through the door to the x-ray machine?

;-)

daxwc wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 11:03 pm

MrTim: The topic title increased my heart rate temporarily, but once I saw that it had nothing in common with my own designs, I calmed down... ;-)

Why are you Norwegian too 8P

No, but I've got a Swedish branch way down on the family tree somewhere... ;-)

Interesting concept, I wish you the best with it.
(The topic title increased my heart rate temporarily, but once I saw that it had nothing in common with my own designs, I calmed down... ;-)

RE: Gegyx & JC's comments

Though Newton was skeptical of PM, if he'd discovered it we never would have heard the end of it... ;-)