July 1, 2018   Independence Day is almost here

The last week or so I have been in the shop so much and standing in front of my 8ft wheel that I am in a zone of thought.  Everyday, new things are seen in the same place, but with a little different light shed on a particular factor that I did not see before.  All of the clues that John Collins has placed at our finger tips ring in the silent chambers of my soul continuously.  It saw a quote from a blacksmith who finally figured out how the make a Viking Ulfbert high carbon steel sword.... it went something like this

I don't do this because I can't do anything else

                  I do it because                      I can/t do anything else

This thing has consumed my soul, day and night, in every conversation and thought, I see mechanisms in my mind and re - evaluate everything that I consider to be fact.

The wheel .......... has a mind of its own and it will not put up with anything but the TRUTH>=

 The inventory of the weights and their placement is the reason that the wheel turns

The wheel must " See and Feel " the weights performing their required work at precisely the right moment and in the correct amount.  This requires the application of basic physics and extremely good fabrication skills and fabrication techniques.

And are Ye Yet without understanding, speaks to the travel of the weights to perform a task.  This diagram must be linked with another of the principles that are the basic makeup of the design.  A wheel that is in balance cannot turn.  So it is the out of balance condition that makes the thing turn.

The careful blending of those forces gives us the movement that we seek

After a few hundred hours of building sliding weights, the true meaning of another clue made its way into the light and is current being assembled. The transition between thought and a working device is the leap that each of us " Wheel Folks " have to tackle.  How well we conceive and build is quite a thing of beauty.

Tackling this last hurdle appears to be on the horizon and soon America will know its Independence from those who would enslave her once again....

There is still much to say, and even more to do

But for now                  I am still seeking

For I am

A  Perpetuum Mobilist

GRAVITTEA                                The wizard of AHZ