My family's health probems having ameliorated a little, I no longer have to go to hospital every day, and that leaves me time to return to building Bessler's wheel! It has been several months since I actually worked on it and in fact I had barely made a start when things began to deteriorate. My plans for 2018 were put on hold, but I am confident that now things are improving, but never forget, "Homo proponit sed Deus disponit".
The basic wheel or wooden disc upon which everything is mounted measures just three feet in diameter, and it will be no surprise to learn that it is divided into five equal segments. Each pivot point has been marked and drilled and each stop point located. I have fitted the pivot axles to all the necessary points, and can now begin construction of each mechanism.
These are complex for me to build but not that hard to understand. Each mechanism has two equal weights attached to it and there are additional features which I prefer to keep to myself for now, but as I have said many times, all will be shared once it works or even if it doesn't.
This wheel is designed to turn in one direction only; it will start to spin spontaneously once the brake is released. It would be tempting fate to fit a brake before I've tested whether it works - but it will of course!
I am well aware after all these years that gravity is not a source of energy, but I am still convinced that the overbalancing weights, provide the drive, as Bessler said, and you may tell me that gravity cannot provide energy, but without it there is no motion.
It’s a bit like saying petroleum provides the energy for the automobile, it doesn’t until it has been ignited and forced a piston upwards. Without the petrol you would get no action.
When I first researched the science which governs this subject, I realised straight away that a closed loop could not provide the energy from one falling weight, but several working together could in theory maintain an open loop, thus cotinuous rotation.
Initially I chose to experiment with over-lapping actions, and when it became too congested, I tested arrangements on both sides of a disc. Then it became necessary to test arrangements on two and even three discs on one axle. I knew that Besser’s first wheel was very thin but it seemed a logical step forwards if it gave me a clue to how he did it.
I tried to put myself in his shoes, designing wheels which might work but which could be refined and reduced to one disc once success had been achieved. Later I returned to the single wooden disc because the other methods were too complex and tests showed that the multiple discs weren’t necessary. But since those early experiments I have gradually broken through Bessler's smoke screens of misleading and ambiguous clues and I'm convinced that I have obtained the design which I believe will work. If it does, I will explain how and why it is identical to Bessler’s design.
People have asked me many times over the years how sure am I that I finally have the right design and I have always said, oh about 90 percent sure, but my certainty has always evapourated in the cold light of reality. But this time .................................?
JC
I am well aware after all these years that gravity is not a source of energy, but I am still convinced that the overbalancing weights, provide the drive, as Bessler said, and you may tell me that gravity cannot provide energy, but without it there is no motion.
It’s a bit like saying petroleum provides the energy for the automobile, it doesn’t until it has been ignited and forced a piston upwards. Without the petrol you would get no action.
When I first researched the science which governs this subject, I realised straight away that a closed loop could not provide the energy from one falling weight, but several working together could in theory maintain an open loop, thus cotinuous rotation.
Initially I chose to experiment with over-lapping actions, and when it became too congested, I tested arrangements on both sides of a disc. Then it became necessary to test arrangements on two and even three discs on one axle. I knew that Besser’s first wheel was very thin but it seemed a logical step forwards if it gave me a clue to how he did it.
I tried to put myself in his shoes, designing wheels which might work but which could be refined and reduced to one disc once success had been achieved. Later I returned to the single wooden disc because the other methods were too complex and tests showed that the multiple discs weren’t necessary. But since those early experiments I have gradually broken through Bessler's smoke screens of misleading and ambiguous clues and I'm convinced that I have obtained the design which I believe will work. If it does, I will explain how and why it is identical to Bessler’s design.
People have asked me many times over the years how sure am I that I finally have the right design and I have always said, oh about 90 percent sure, but my certainty has always evapourated in the cold light of reality. But this time .................................?
JC
