While I await completion of the purchase of my house, I am unable to do any wheel building, so I'm working on the configuration of the mechanisms to try to improve and simplify the actions. This can be a good task to undertake as it can lead to new ideas and also the discovery of potential problem areas. Predictably I have found a weak spot in my design which is easily overcome and my enforced idleness has given me the opportunity to find this before I had continued with my build. I tend to attack these new designs with too much enthusiasm and haste and then find I've got to go back a couple of steps to correct things.
My publishing intentions are still firm and at least I have the time now to work on the document and make any necessary alterations.
So my plan is to continue to finish and publish all the information I have acquired which I believe Bessler left for us in the hope that we would understand it and replicate his work. At the same time l'm continuing to look at my design and once I'm back in my workshop, I will try to finish my proof of principle wheel or at least the mechanism, and publish a video of it with accompanying commentary.
For those who may think I'm prevaricating about my hypothesis document I must tell you that it is proving a complex composition. It currently runs to more than 40 pages with more than 38 illustrations and there are more in the pipeline. If this seems a lot, be assured that it is necessary. If I am to prove that Johann Bessler left enough instructions to permit the construction of his wheel, exactly in the form that he built his own, then I have to show the clues as he left them and how they reveal the solutions. Each clue forms part of the whole, but it had to be obscure otherwise it would be too obvious and his secret revealed too soon.
For those who may think I'm prevaricating about my hypothesis document I must tell you that it is proving a complex composition. It currently runs to more than 40 pages with more than 38 illustrations and there are more in the pipeline. If this seems a lot, be assured that it is necessary. If I am to prove that Johann Bessler left enough instructions to permit the construction of his wheel, exactly in the form that he built his own, then I have to show the clues as he left them and how they reveal the solutions. Each clue forms part of the whole, but it had to be obscure otherwise it would be too obvious and his secret revealed too soon.
Which ever comes first does not matter to me, I will publish both. In the mean time I will continue to write my blog when I feel that I have something worth saying. I hope that you will stay with me at least to give me your reactions when publication happens.
JC
