Moved from "Over Balanced Wheel - Perpetual Motion"

[Sir Isaac Einstein]

CraigD
Nice try sir ----- but your calculations have a flaw in them. You see, MY design does NOT, in
any way, 'allow' for this device of mine to 'pendulate'.
In fact, (once moving,) my set-up remains exactly the same ----- even after 1 millionth (or more), of
a degree ----- forever! Don't believe me? You'll have to ----- once I figure out how to 'post' my design
on this forum! Any ideas?

Sir Isaac Einstein

[freeztar]

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Then, use the link they supply you in a post here.

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[Sir Isaac Einstein]

Thankyou, freeztar,
I'll try them all. If I get no joy, I'll contact you privately.
Once again, Thankyou very much.
Sir Isaac Einstein

[lemit]

I skimmed through this thread and may have missed a link to the first thing that came up when I Googled "overbalanced wheel."

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/overbal.htm

And then there's this.

Ben Thomas building a copy of "Techstuff's" gravity wheel

And also this.

Perpetual Motion

So is the idea that of a flywheel on some kind of gravity-based steroids? Because if that's what it is, I tried that a dozen times when I was 10 years old and fascinated with the single cylinder engine an old sawmill used. It occurred to me after a few attempts that the designers of the engine probably wouldn't have put the cylinder on if the flywheel had been enough by itself. So I attached my flywheel to a crude electric motor I had made and still have, and a homemade generator, which never generated much energy. When that stopped being fun, I went back to finding new ways to kill grasshoppers and baby birds. Weights combined with hay derricks often seemed to do the trick. Feed grinders and corn shellers were good too. But nothing beat a rubber band and a firecracker.

I have since made my peace with nature, and have allowed that trying to design a perpetual motion machine probably isn't any more natural than blowing up baby birds by sticking firecrackers down their throats.

--lemit

p.s. Sincere apologies to all animal lovers.

[stereologist]

I recall seeing an early design on the cover of a manuscript by Stevin. Several hundred years old, circa 1585. Since then lots of people have made drawings of these devices and guess what, none of them work. After all of this time you'd think people would finally understand that these devices do not work and the hundreds of years of history that have evaluated why the devices do not work.

[Sir Isaac Einstein]

Dear steriologist,
Just because everyone before me whoever designed a perpetual
motion machine were wrong, does NOT make MY design wrong!
I'm affraid you're tarring everybody with the same brush. Wait until I make my designs
'public', and THEN make up your mind. After all, it's best to read the book, and NOT its
cover!
I am, right now, in the process of making my design public, so you won't have long to
wait.
You're probably a nice guy ----- good luck pal!

Sir Isaac Einstein

[stereologist]

Just because everyone before me whoever designed a perpetual
motion machine were wrong, does NOT make MY design wrong!

Why do you say other people were wrong when they tried this?

And I didn't say your design was wrong. I stated that there are over 400 years of trying this and no one has gotten it to work. These very smart people learned why their designs did not work and why in general this can't be done.

You're probably well intentioned, but do not understand the issues at hand.

[Sir Isaac Einstein]

steriologist,
I did NOT say other peoples designs were wrong ----- YOU did!
All I did, was to follow your suggestion.
As far as you saying my design is not wrong ----- how on Earth would YOU know.,you've
never even seen it?
Do yourself a favour pal, wait untill my design is available to all, before you come to any
conclusions!

Sir Isaac Einstein

[lemit]

Sir Isaac,

If your design works, you should patent it. You don't need to give us the whole design, or even tell us exactly what you did that was right. If you could tell us how the other people erred, we could get together--we're not as dumb as we seem--and work out our own understanding of the solution you would by then have already patented. Would that be all right?

If not, I'll probably join jab2 and leave the disputation to the rest of you..

--lemit

[Sir Isaac Einstein]

Dear lemit,
I have absolutely NO intention of applying for a patent on my design.
IT'S FREE TO EVERYONE! I will also NOT accept any honours by any institution
or the like. Am I mental? Maybe!
All I can really say to everybody is; BE PATIENT. Judge me afterward!
Read the book, NOT the cover!

Sir Isaac Einstein