An Indication of a Four Weight Configuration

[Grimer]

I have returned from a 7 month convalescence, and I find that almost everyone is still beating a dead horse.

The horse isn't dead. It's only sleeping.

[silverfox]

Yes... that's it...

only "sleeping"...

just like Rip Van Winkle was...

while some strange looking, bearded old men,

paid no attention at all and kept right on playing nine-pins...

[Gwheel]

Thank you silverfox,

while some strange looking, bearded old men,

paid no attention at all and kept right on playing nine-pins...

Heh, heh... sounds as if this may be some of us here, but, for sure, we spend a moment to consider anything posted which involves collisions, energy and motion. In this case, naaa... too random to consider.

On another note: I believe a transfer of weights is the key.
Bessler wrote, "Many would be Mobile-makers think that if they can arrange for some of the weights to be a little more distant from the centre than the others, then the thing will surely revolve. A few years ago, I learned all about this the hard way. And then the truth of the old proverb came home to me that one has to learn through bitter experience"

Interestingly, he did not say that arrangement would not work, only that he learned about it the hard way, through bitter experience.

Good luck everyone!

Regards,
Chris

[Irish Oracle]

Bessler also said this,


"a work of this kind of craftsmanship has, at its basis of motion, many separate pieces of lead. These come in pairs, such that as one of them takes up an outer position, the other takes up a position nearer the axle. Later, they swap places, and so they go on and on changing places all the time."

[wheelrite]

I agree the square drive smooths the torque, the forked rods on the axle are for keeping the rope were it needs to be, and their length and phasing should maintain good tension in the rope? The rope crosses for grip maybe but also mirrors the stamper actuating bars, in a paired scissor manner.
Regards
Jon