Need help with nitinol motor Bribe offered

HI All. I posted this on several newsgroups and got a lot of responses. I would like to thank everyone for their input. The answers that I like are: capstain/multiple turns around pulleys use tubing for guide and spot weld grooving pulleys for more surface area crimp fittings from fishing supply store idlers/belts to apply extra pressure on pulleys Answers I didn't like: coating pulleys with nonslip stuff- wire pressure too great. will fail too fast. I have notified people with the above ideas and will offer wire only for some other ideas. Thanks for your interest. Larry

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This is one of the more inefficient schemes for converting thermal to mechanical energy ever developed. Only a tiny fraction of the energy in the water bath (on a bicycle?) will be transferred to a thin wire running through it. Nitinol only converts a few percent of the heat energy to mechanical energy. So you get to multiply the efficiencies of two low-efficiency processes to get a very tiny number.

Nitinol is mostly a solution looking for a problem.

Please don't do that.

John Nagle