"Jerry" wrote in message
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Max Keon wrote:
My original free disc was a 320mm * 10mm steel disc, rotating on
a very light duty unshielded ball bearing, with its center fixed
with the rotating housing. That was totally useless though because
any bearing clearance at all would cause the free disc bearing
surface to roll backwards on the lesser diameter mating shaft and
lag behind the rotating housing.

That is obvious.

Yes, it is obvious. But whether or not that would be a problem
wasn't even considered in the initial stages of the experiment.
The fundamental problem of maintaining a constant rotation rate was
a far greater priority. All of these little details would eventually
show their faces. This experiment didn't start off with any grand
master plan. It was a step by step process. If I couldn't overcome
problems as they emerged, that's where the experiment would end.

It is also obvious that this criticism applies to ANY mechanical
bearing technology, such as your needle point bearings, etc.

I have now inverted the needle point bearings and the result is
still much the same. I've also increased the shaft diameters of the
rotating housing to 17mm to allow for the free disc axle to be
extended outside the entire unit so that I can physically monitor
its performance, make adjustments, and carry out any test on the
spring loaded contact point without upsetting anything else. The
disc now weighs 59 grams, and with the disc weight pressing down
on the hozizontally aligned bearings, it takes 64 grams to separate
the needle from its seat. If the need arose, that force could be
substantially reduced and the disc bearings would still be held firm
with no clearance.

Any misalignments between needle point and bearing surface
will also manifest itself in anomalous differential rotations, of
a purely mechanical nature.

You are apparently not understanding the significance of inverting
the needle point bearings so that the needle points are fixed to
the rotating housing instead of the free disc. When the points are
fixed to the free disc the disc will roll forward of the rotating
housing, and will roll backwards when the points are fixed to the
housing. I could have been lucky enough to set the bearings so that
two completely opposing mechanical functions delivered exactly the
same result. Then of course I need to include the extra piece of
luck that caused the free disc to rotate, again in exactly the same
direction and by exactly the same amount, when I attached one needle
point to the housing and one to the free disc.

Whatever your mechanical flaw may then be in one bearing, it would
be the same in the other, **and each would counteract the other**.

During the course of a marathon test, the affects from temperature
and atmospheric pressure changes were very obvious, and expected.
i.e. If all of the air was removed from inside the rotating housing
and there was zero friction in the free disc bearings, the free disc
would remain oriented with earth.

In other words, mechanical artifacts still dominated your results.

That's some domination. A 100% reversal of rotation??? I think you
could be on track to discover perpetual motion. Good luck.

The following list of results were collected in a short duration
test conducted on a very still and overcast day, when temperature
and atmospheric pressure would be the most stable. The test was
conducted from the higher speed to the lower speed rotation rates.
A final check at the high speed end confirmed that everything was
still running as before. Even though the results carry no absolute
guarantees, they are certainly good enough to demonstrate my point,
for now.

Highly doubtful. In the past, you have consistently proven
yourself unable to conduct a well controlled experiment. You
show no evidence of any improvement in your current work.

My methods are unorthodox, that's why they succeed.

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Max Keon