Well, there are machines that do something similar to that already, TEguy, there's a factory in japan that uses mechanisms close to the ones that were used in
karakuri ningyo dolls. The factory produces transmissions, and they use carts that use the weight of the transmission to propell the cart forward while compressing a spring that after the cart transports the transmission a few yards to another assembly line, returns the cart back to it's original position, then another transmission goes on it, and the process repeats itself, just like in the karakuri dolls. It's actually fairly efficient, not perpetual motion, but is this the kind of thing you were thinking of, TEguy
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