Working Attraction Magnet Motor on Youtube!?

[Omnibus]

Bill, this is very promising. Aside from the grinding and @zero's remark, it appears that the distance between the consecutive "stations" isn't the same. See in your rendition, the distances horizontally between the first, second, third and fourth heads of screws starting from the top and compare it with that distance between the fourth (bottom) and the fifth (next top). Not the same, isn't it? This changes the pattern of interaction which must be exactly the same at each "station" in order for the device to go on moving.

[zero]

a closer pic.

Notice the various distances.  Very close tolerances.

The Red and Green Diag. line show how close the spacing is
from Tip to head.

The Red horizontal lines show that the Heads are on the same
lines.  (overlapping the line)   

The blue lines show that the endpoint are very close to the heads that
are Below that point.

These tolerances may play a big part in how the magnetic attraction
is flowing.

[zero]

Another issue is all the odd angles seen here.   Making it perfect might mess up
the flows.   Hard to say really.

[Omnibus]

That's strange, indeed. Could it be that this is such a rugged design that works despite all these imperfections?

[zero]

Roughly about 1 head apart horizontal diff.