Posted by John Collins (194.164.38.238) on June 11, 2003 at 00:17:49:
In Reply to: Re: Number of components in Bessler's wheel posted by David on June 10, 2003 at 12:43:32:
Hi David,
Sorry, I was being flippant about taking over a year. The building time is almost done and although to date this has only taken about four weeks, the parts I am using have been around and used on previous models for about three years. Obviously alterations sometimes have to be made but the various parts are good and can be re-used over and over.
When I construct a model from a design I have made, I'm nearly always about 95% certain that it will work and it's the actual model that teaches me where I've gone wrong.
Yes I was surprised myself that there were 40 moving parts, but I can say that I am constructing a wheel with four identical mechanisms to produce the sound of four weights landing on the side towards which the wheel will turn, so each mechanism has ten moving parts, which is not so much.
JC
John,
: You said on building your new design that you aren't sure it will work and may take over a year. Is that building time, or are there areas of the machine you are unsure of, as in not sure the principles will work, and so the year comprises research, trial and effort time? 40 some odd parts sounds very exacting.
: David