Clyde,
What would allow Mt 69 to work is how the levers perform work and then conserve momentum. There might be a simple way to use levers.
With the description Bessler gave;
5. “Alternately gravitating to the centre and climbing back up again." AP 291
alternately (adj.) occurring by turns; succeeding each other; one and then the other; to exchange places
This might describe the levers motion.
2. “My 'principle of excess weight’, these weights are themselves the PM device, the 'essential constituent parts' which must of necessity continue to exercise their motive force so long as they keep away from the centre of gravity.� DT 190 John Collins/Mike Senior translation of DT pp. 20-21
It might be that as long as the water keeps getting pumped to the top, it will stay away from the center of gravity. And Mt 69 shows 2 weights (bellows).
edited to add;
http://www.besslerwheel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5312
and this, all quotes are from the same thread.
Cross-bar
cross-bar (noun) a structural member that crosses other elements; two perpendular beams crossing at the axis; lazy tongs
1.a “If I arrange to have just one cross-bar in my machine, it revolves very slowly, just as if it can hardly turn itself at all, but, on the contrary, when I arrange several bars, pulleys and weights, the machine can revolve much faster." AP 340 Collins translation
Clyde, what Bessler may have done is he may have at first used pipes and then used the rim instead. I have been told by someone in Germany that he said he used pipes or tubes. Maybe someone knows about Bessler having said that and can post it ?
