This isn't really a clue, it's just common sense.
If you are one of those who, like myself, believe that Bessler told the truth then you will know that what follows is demonstrably true. Whether you include two, three, four or five weights or more, on your overbalancing wheel you will have discovered that it still ends up with the wheel in perfect balance, stationary. When the wheel comes to rest it will have either a single weight at six o’clock, or a pair of weights on either side of six o’clock. That is a fact.
The problem lies in the design. If it requires that gravity makes the weight move from the inner orbit to the outer orbit, thus inducing overbalancing and limited rotation, the wheel will come to a stop after a brief rotation. If you want to make an overbalancing wheel spin continuously, then yes, you must arrange for the weight to fall into an outer orbit on one side of the wheel... then you have to find a way to lift each weight back up to its original position at least once during each rotation so that it can fall again. You don't have a choice. It simply won’t work if you design it so that the weights only move outwards, under the influence of gravity, as the wheel turns. It is not enough to think that the fallen weight will be raised as the wheel turns and somehow fall inwards again at some point. You need an additional force to lift the weight, or move it back inwards again - Bessler didn't exactly say so, but he implied that that additional force was also gravity too - but a separate packet of it.
JC
