Originally Posted By: paul
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You have the technical capability to prove the concept but if you try you'll know everything you said is wrong.


you cant claim that , and besides Im not NASA

You've said you have various workshop tools, and car. You can make this with bits of wire and PVC pipes you know.

It occurs to me that a car engine is almost exactly your device!!! Each piston is a "mass". Each time a cylinder fires, the piston is accelerated downwards (never upwards). When the piston gets to the bottom of the stroke it reverses without changing speed. When it gets to the top of a stroke it reverses without changing speed.

It really is the same thing! Well the only difference I can see is the engine's acceleration is applied during the 2nd turn (top of stroke). But you could just retard the timing to make it fire after TDC.

Do you think a car engine running in space would accelerate itself through space?