Posted by R.Roedig (209.244.100.233) on March 01, 2002 at 22:18:39:
Hi Scott, I assume this is your website - very nice job! I'd just like to go on record here with another idea I think will work. Not exactly the Bessler wheel, but close. I jury rigged a protoype with a bicycle wheel to see if the idea has merit and it appears ok. Next step is to make a real prototype. I'm a mech engineer and have access to a machine shop, but need to work on the design. It would work on simple recirculation of ball weights- (yeah, that's what they all say). But I like what Oystein has said, that we need to be open in our thinking: you may have that one idea that works, but dismiss it because you think "why wasn't this done before?", so I'll give it a try.