Good analysis. Thankyou for the links too, Sm0ky2
However, I imagine that a car crash with
no gravity would be infinitely worse than one
with (for the occupants at least
)
My replication is still ongoing, making good progress with it.
After much deliberation and many tests, I now have a concise plan for each stage of my own interpretation / replication.
What I have planned for the upper & lower "Inertia Assemblies" as I have coined it, should work quite well.
I plan to use a single stage gear "step-up" on the output shaft to increase RPM and a flywheel on the PMA pinion gear, alongside a sprag bearing. This should smooth out any irregularities incurred by A. it being a single unbalanced unit and B. the actuation being achieved in a linear fashion demonstrated by David Quirey in his Meccano model.
(It's a cheaper and easier way to achieve the same thing, as it would seem no one has figured out what Skinner did to get his rotating, elliptical action on the upper bars) It seems unnecessarily complicated (albeit mesmerizing) and the cantilever effect achieved could likely be done in many different ways.
This is all assuming there is no better course of action to take than sticking a PMA on it?
Could also use a Frennete style friction heater to capture output on shaft and use refrigerant loops and a turbine, that'd be a
lot more work though (and risky)
The proposed COP:12 should make up for a world of "mechanical sins"
But one must assemble the
entire thing however crudely, and I believe this is where most fail.
Perseverance is key for any who would replicate this device, that is, until someone does it and tells us all how to.
The way I see it, the potential applications of this brilliant design in todays world are horribly understated.
Will post a more comprehensive update in my own thread once final tests have been conducted, but send me a PM if you (the reader) would like some suggestions as to what to use and where etc. More people should work on this design IMO. It would take just one successful attempt shared and we have our OU problem solved.
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