The Real Johann Bessler's Wheel!

[Wubbly]

You're doing some great work.

If you don't feel like making it, you might find it here:

https://www.mcmaster.com/

I used them a few times and they ship very quickly.

[TheVisitorV]

Ty, well at this point i just hope it will work cause else i don't want to think about it but i will take it in consideration if what i'm doing fails, i've look previously on that website, got a hotplug in fusion 360 but never considered them as an option. Not sure if they are an option for me.

I think the 4m of t5 belt will arrive on Monday and i will know then, now i have to hang in here. Maybe if i'm extremely lucky, today, but i doubt it. Not sure if they even took the order cause i got no confirmation or anything like that.

Anyway, i'm prototyping some of the other parts so i'll have something to keep me busy. I want to order the rods by Monday, i need like 2 rods of about 130cm 10mm diameter. Need to be careful about the dimension of the rods since this machine is completely dependent on the radius and it's ability to slide in contact with the rim in order to get everything moving.

Cash is running very low as well, but i might get some extra funds next week. This month seems i'll have some extra expenses as well unfortunately. Got this far, i'll find a way to get it going one way or the other. I really want to finish it by the end of October, 20 more days...

Edit: checked on the website, they gave me an awb, the belt it's on the way,might actually have a chance of arriving today.

Edit2: received an sms from the courier, told me that they will bring the belts today.

edit3: got a notification from the mail office, told me to go pickup one of the packages from china on Monday. I hope is the one with the bearings and not the extra components for the 3d printer.

[TheVisitorV]

the t5 belt is here....as i suspected the steel wires inside are very very difficult to cut BUT it seems it can handle the job properly if is tensioned properly.

I think i'll do this today, went and got some needles so i can close the loop properly.

[TheVisitorV]

https://youtu.be/N7RTXwXcI70

The belts are good but i need to join them correctly, unfortunately is not that easy but it's doable.

[TheVisitorV]

Belt joining proves to be more difficult then expected without the proper equipment, but i think i found a solution, i will test it on daylight.

What are the chances of this working? i don't know, i deffiently believe that it does but i will not know until i've built enough of the machine to realize or maybe it needs completion in order for me to understand, if it was a gift to me or am i completely insane.

It is so strange how i ended up here, but i know the steps i took and how it happened. I'm so anctious to find out the truth, am i right or am i wrong. Ahhhhh, it would be so beautiful, that i know. Something so simple yet so amazing.

It's so crazy, ... would all the the people of this world be happy? no, not all, some, perhaps many.

I know this as well, things would change for the worst before the better, at least for some, so much time and effort invested into this phony economy. It is so strange in this place i've lived in, one of the riches places on the earth in terms of all that is true and loving, beautiful and useful beyond the needs of any one person, yet all the time, those we love, leave to make a better life for themselves. But then, children take care of the old and the old of the children cause no one is left to make things better and slowly but surly things start to crumble.

And those that gave their lives to make this dream come true must be so sadden by this situation all their hopes now replaced by an obvious reality, people gave up and that's sad to me as well especially cause they're a lot stronger then they recognize, but hope within their hearts is gone as well as other many things.

I still hope, i still fight, i still try to make room for love into the hearts of many, to relief the pressure and the stress of this on going rat race. Will i make it, i don't know, i could be a total failure. At least i will find out soon, that is good, it's good.

Will i be glad and joyful or sad in calmness, i can't stop wondering...
i will find out

[TheVisitorV]

Timing belts is the way to go but not sure if here for the simple reason that i don't have proper tools to join the belts, i think i will change the design a bit to eliminate 4 of the belts and let only the big 2 witch are absolutely necessary anyway.

I'll have to rhink this trough but better change now then find out later that is crap.


Anyway, when the belts are aligned and tensed properly i can notice that balancing effect at certain angles of the weights,making them very easy to move, but the belts since are joined like crap don't do a good job at this all the time.

I'm a bit calmer now since i've noticed this effect, is great news and whatever is wrong in the current prototype can be changed with ease. so i'll use some gears bot need to see how can i mentain them on the same axle and as compact as possible.

It might be a way that i've imagined, we will see.

[TheVisitorV]

Sorry to bother you, i've made a prototype for the new weight module, it's gear based, needs some work but it's doable. It's slightly larger then the other one but it will have to do. There is room for improvement. I'm going for this one.

i will post video when i can.

I think this thread will degenerate with my thoughts, guess there are not many around right now, not much different then most days. Feel so old, so sad, so lonely, it's been a glimpse since i was young a glimpse ago. I guess it's a side effect from constantly projecting stuff into my mind, 2 much 2 fast all kind of nonsensical stuff.

No wonder, the cartoon ish world of dreams makes much more sense to me then what i call the real world. Of course i'm wrong but makes no difference. Writing, such a labor of loneliness, all the great minds dove into it heavily, not much shit to do by yourself i guess, better write so no one says your crazy talking to yourself.

Acting, to good to be so bad yet i failed miserably, i've acted myself out of my body mind and soul and i've became eternity for 1 moment of it all, and i looked back and looked forward and there was no end but all was dead, more as in freezing, and i freez to death. No lights, no sorrow, no nothing really and it does make sense, cause even when you do, 2 steps back and 1 forward, you still shake that ass and keep going.

Mindless acts, little by little they creep in, loosing control, stay focus, sweat keeps rushing in the summer, but now everything is almost dead, getting red, a bright red October late summer. They keep going, birds and insects, some found room inside my ready room. Yeahhh, that's my all room almost, luckily, else it would be to much chaos. Not much room for anything really.

I got fissshheeess, had more, many died and many will, they got babies, so cool, to bad ain't much room not sure if they'll make it till summer. Cause it's getting to a point where is me or them and i ain't no fish. We'll see.

But all's good, considering, some strange, you know what, just happened, lost my mind completely, and yet i don't know if i'm nuts or a genius, i will i will i will find out, i grow impatient. I thought i would be finished by now, but i am so slow lately, Who knows, right?


I' would made a letter out of this, if we were late 1700s, yeah, i'd make a note and sent it to a homeless home, but even them don't care, cause they arent lonely. They act in gangs, with knifes, with sticks and look for fights everywhere except near me, cause i'm so damn depressed that they would end themselves to give me their money, their houses and wives, just to keep me company.

Really, what have you thought, i bet you thought i was serious up to a point. Ain't no joke though, stay away from here on. Hey, you want my story? Here we go on a silly journey, it will take a while, cause it's so boring, but skip ahead a few pages down and you'll probably see what your're seeing now, so stay a while and listen, cause old grampa Cain has a few more lines, listen, before you commit yourself i got to tell you something. It ain't what you expect, all nonsense, there is here a secret, one you'll have to listen, listen carefully and you will here, between the words on harmony and one divide, it's a new riddle for the inspired, one that even i aspire, and i don't even know what is it, with all this mastery.

[TheVisitorV]

linear bearings are here finally, the holes i made for them are ok, they barely fit inside, that's good.

Oh, almost forgot, i've ordered the rods, 2 x 130cm rods, they will be here by friday i think.

I'm working on the plates that keep this stuff together, things are moving, slowly but they are. that's good.

need to integrate a few more things into the weight module, nothing complicated, just the wheels/clicket for the belts. I might need to make the gears wider or maybe just use some good spacers. I will see.

Wow, at this pace i will finish...at the end of my life :)), need to speed things a bit i guess. It would be easier if i had most of the parts but since some don't even exist, well...

But in about 2 weeks or less things will be a lot clearer if i'm delusional or not, hope not, cause there is not much else to do otherwise.

The weight module behaves partially as expected, i'm a bit worry about how it will function at high speeds with all that plastic friction, hope they won't melt until i get to actually see something. But if they work, well at least i got the cads and maybe some aluminum extrusions would do the work. Long road till there.

[TheVisitorV]

One rat race later, i get trapped, i struggle to escape, but i'm to stuck, i'm ok for now but for how long, cause i just can't go, maybe i'll chew my leg off, not sure when to start, might get lucky and get saved, by another rat that was lucky, to pass the first cage, one moment later i hear clack, now there's to of us here cause that mouse got stuck.

Welcome to the sewers within my mind, were no one ever will ever climb.

I am amazed, completely and utterly amazed no matter where i look, the only downside is, i realize that i'm not amazing, well, it's even worst then that, i feel as a nothing, and i'm not sure if there is anything worst then as a man, or wanna be, to feel this way.

Never knew about the cycles, no one told me, until i found out, i was stunned but still to early to understand even one. I went from an explorer to a complete addict, life after life, i thought i was done, but here i am again trying to fix, what never was broken.

Not sure why i took it upon myself, eager, arrogant, naive, whatever, before i could even say anything i was here nothing else could be done. 1 moment, 1 slip, and i wake up and everything is gone. No idea where i am, who these people are, what they want, forcing food down my throat, yelling and twisting, shacking and breathing, mumbling and spitting.

A bit later, i was clueless, another dumb dumb, everything was new but not quite, i just couldn't figure it out, what is, don't know.

Oh no, my eye, it's bleeding, it was glass and now it's in my eye, i'm bleeding, i'm screaming but no one's hearing cause my mouth is not big enough to be as loud. Running to find someone that can help, i'm not that far, i can get help quickly but everyone when they see me freak out, my hands are red, my face covered in blood, i have tears and blood in my eyes and i'm scared. Everything i was touching was turning red, that's all i remember, and now i'm here.

Where did all this time went, how should i know, not blind in the eye but blind in the head, now i'm here, where did all this time went?

There is no hospital in my memory, no next day, no nothing until this very day, very moment but yet with a strong sense of reality i can tell, that for anything to mean anything there needs to be a chain, a link, a connection to the past, to time and space itself but by the time you'll get it perhaps you will understand, it's just a story without beginning and no end, and your the food for it.

When one stays up, one comes down, when one goes left one goes right, when one is left behind one goes ahead but they all arrive at their own time to play their part on the path that was given. Else everything would freeze to death, and while that's not as bad as it sounds, there is a reason why everyone is trying to make a living to exist in this season of planet earth, monkeys have risen.

Now lets split down the center, and watch all this, all sorts of conclusions, what is it, don't let children play with glass light bulbs? perhaps but unlikely, better learn to make safer stuff, for everyone, except the plastic or the sand.

Like i said, i've been here for a while, i lived the cycle, i lived the cycles, and i'm here to live another one but i find it hard to imagine that i'm the only one, yet i look in all directions and everyone's moving and i'm sitting, living breathing, perhaps is time to move this stillness, a bit, around.

No way this is happening, but it still is, and it's going and going, and it never ends, except for you, for a short while, but it seems like eternity, so far removed from all that was into the new this that no one even remembers.

I made it somehow, not by myself, left a trail into the centuries, from one cycle to the next, i am amazed how it worked out, it is a blessing, what a gift. One breath, one slip, that's all it took and i was out into eternity, where all is possible except to hold you in my arms, yes, eternity is cruel and cold and nothing's happening whatever else would go on.

[ovyyus]

good stuff

[TheVisitorV]

Been detached from myself for a while, all lights of this spaceship are bleeping,
Warning, warning, look out, collision!

Keeping calm and steady, fearless, up to a point, when realized that death is worst then i suspected, fails to deliver as promise, just takes you apart gives you a new self, a new body and throws you back into the mix, not knowing anything. Again and again and again, and there is so much stuff you pick up on this road that serves you no more but is so well tight to your soul, that you don't even know anymore you can just let it go.

Becoming is hard, being is even harder, lit up the tv and loose yourself into the fantasy is so damn easy, easily we loose our minds into the screens, our lives with every tick, with every spin of this death wheel we will kill every hope at anything ever to happen again.


Man learns space and time, and every possibility, some lessons are just hard, some are unforgiving, step by step , and moment by moment, we climb ahead even if we all know it, we will die cause there is no damn reason to go behind, one step closer and the other one, never riches, but we say, at least he tired, he was with us and now he died, he will renew like all of us, he will go down and become dust till the day he will be given, a new life, but same destiny, cause he failed even if he almost made it.

How many do i need to make it happen? 10? 20? 100? i would pay with eternity if only i knew how to make it happen before i loose myself to the recycler, the price seems to high, i know but think about it, you live so long and when you finally find the truth and you know that time is good but timing is more relevant and is your last hand, no bluff will work, cause truth will catch up, and you will either be rewarded heaven or get paid in hell, better be prepared, cause all choices, all indecision, will play their part and there is still not enough reason to set you apart, it's a game of at least 2, and you're not your friend, you are an enemy of yourself

Look at you, seriously, do you really think you can make it, you can break the mystery, you think your even smart, look at you, you got nothing, you live in shit and farts and you keep refusing to listen to the bleeping sounds. Your crashing, WAKE UP!

I cannot stop, there is only forward and no back, no returns, no good comebacks, all there is, is straight ahead no matter how many rights how many lefts, all there is is straight ahead and that's where i'm heading, i keep my sails up, keep blessing, wind heats up, boat's speeding, this old space ship gonna make you feel like your in the movies.... cause...damn...i do believe in happy endings.

2 more weeks, perhaps 3, perhaps a year, perhaps eternity, as long as it takes, after all, if we still try to stretch reality , why not anything at all, the big empties keep moving and space reshapes, nothing to do with it, beyond your possibilities you try to grind your way, through the crust of this big world, filled with plenty but never enough.

Warning, warning, look out, collision!

never mind, i better go check what's going on.

[TheVisitorV]

No surprise there, we are getting closer, everything is warning red, all that surrounds us is space that moves eternal but so dead, pitch black, no tiny light insight, no helping hands, no distant calls, no chance in hell to ever return but i sill keep my eyes open and my heart beating, not even death can stop me to full fill it. Designed my worst nightmare and now i'm living it for a few short moments every minute.

Ahead, we go ahead, i'm the captain, we go ahead, all cowards abandon ship, let the darkness eat you, the one that's worst then even death, as it creeps so deep in you, killing every hope of ever achieving, being a man, ahead i say, let's go and face uncertainty, kill all doubt by proving this mystery for every human being that cares and if we fail, we fail but this time perhaps we won't, perhaps we will, who cares really.

So serious, so driven by complete and utter insanity, to believe so hard that you can make a difference that instead of cold and loneliness it could bring love and warmness to so many people, what would you do? would you dare? would you break your heart, torn it apart, maybe got your eyes out, stepped on them, cause you know that this might be the last time you might ever get to see, green eyes, tearing up, turning blue and grey.

Ahead, ahead i say cause there is no end in sight, few weeks away and we might be alright, the price for the journey already been paid, stop acting like scared little brats. Love is the door, sacrifice the key, sometimes we make it, sometimes we don't, but ahead we're moving into the deep dark mystery of empty space. Collision my ass...

WARNING! WARNING! Critical failure!

Oh God, now what?

[TheVisitorV]

Pipes out, were venting, cardiac arrest incoming, full gear on, stack meds on the bar and keep spamming, all hands on board, no one else is coming, panic mode starts kicking, wait a minute, this is my story ain't it? I gonna get there, there's no stooping, full ship can blow up, i will moon walk if i got to, no stopping now, just ahead, we slowly move ahead of time we fall we rise we bring summer in your eyes from outer space after we crown you in the winters, winter head.

With spikes and frost in your hair, with red chicks and an honest smile, all greened up and ready to play like a child.

Get back in control, evasive maneuvers, what am i thinking, there is nothing to evade, just empty space, loosing oxygen and counting days, must have made me delirious. All lights red, must be for a reason, who am i kidding, i'm lost in the abyss and now all there is, me and my ship, strange machine this is, powered by ambitions beyond what you would never imagine and hopes of being able to bring into this world one true pure desire.

I keep dreaming, as this old boat delivers me out of uncharted territories, chart what, it is empty, picture black, yes that's how charted it is, my aim was once true but now isn't, yet i say again, ahead ahead, cause if the end won't find us i'll find it. So far apart, so far removed. This old ship is steaming, cracking noises, no mold, even that needs to breed some more.

Going deeper into the swears? we're just beginning!

Warning Warning! gravity pulling away

WHAT IN THE WORLD? Now what?

[TheVisitorV]

Get ready to be uplifted, loosing control, there's no north anymore and everything looks the same, through the jelly eyes there is no light to penetrate, pitch black and only warning lights bleeping, but i keep going cause ahead is the only way i know of, and in the end would make no difference, cause it's the same every way i'd turn, same pitch black cold surroundings sounding deaf and hungry.

At peace, ohhhh, i am at peace when the points break, i jump away into another world and then i get pulled into this self, i count the days, i count the hours, i count the seconds and i enjoy the silence, i jump again, into the nothing i pull away cause i am something. And some things we can't live without.

One wish comes true, even if im pulled through the roof of my neighbor i still feel like floating, i am here now for a glimpse, into his mind, beyond the rift, and there is still nothing, cause all i see it's dark. It's time to do lights out, good night, old habits from back in the day when we had any sense of time and space. Here night doesn't exist cause all there is, is nothing, huge potential for something but just an empty shell without boundaries and no idea of concepts, ignorant of form, careless and cold.

I let myself float, with my body, no weight on my chest but souls heavy, mouth breathing slowly, pulling and pushing myself from something to nothing to something, until i'll lose my mind or accomplish what i've been given, to be the spark that brings a smile even for a minute, from my mind to your lips.

I never lived a day in all my life, i was born at night and it's still night but i saw the sun once before i passed away, before i crawled like a coward back into my ignorant ways cause i knew no better. And the sun went away, and it was dark. And i would have never even knew what darkness is before, how could, when all the love i received before i've met you, was from warning bleeping lights, still going.

[TheVisitorV]

I am insane, always was but is this all i am, just another idiot who thinks he understands the world how could i ever know if i wont do it? If i'm right, i'm right, if i'm wrong is bad, i took a chance, more then i can chew and now i float in darkness cause my sun is lost to time and i can never forget, even if i find my way out of this abyss there is nothing to return for.

Yet here i stand more insane then ever, moving forward, step by step a moment ago, cause now i'm floating, i am insane but am i wrong or right, that is my question and we will soon find out. It will spin or keel, it will break or fly, will it crush my legs and spine, will i break a nail and cry, will it work, i do not know, we will soon find out!

I'd jump for joy, but you know, i'm floating slowly towards paradise, cause the only white light i see is in my mind, my life, my joy gone, floating now towards nothing no matter how it ends, and that's not even the saddest story yet, we are still at the entrance, so buckle up, i'm not kidding, blipping lights my ass, we're moving towards the end, is it time yet, we will see, but timing is right on schedule and the answer might be.

I am strange like this, always was, words come out easily when i'm in agony, mind moves, tryes to express the ultimate will to keep going, thoughts merge to place the last testimony of one souls that's been here long enough to know, paradise ain't coming, this is space and we're deep and we're lost.

Ohhhhhhhh, shut the fuck up, how long will you complain, take these tools and move outside, fix these pipes, we're loosing life, that's right, we're down to last you stupid ass, can't you get it, this is your last, you either do it or you take it. You either go outside and fix the pipes, or i put your head through walls till i find the door for you that leads outside without a line to make sure i never fucking hear you wine! Space walk fool, take it as a man or end it!