Working Magnetic Motor on you tube??

[Omnibus]

Now the time has come to check various ring-bearing combinations. Problem is, all the bearings I have come from the same source. Same for the ring magnets. As far as I remember @alsetalokin had bearings lying around in his lab from unknown, probably different sources. So, I wonder if it would make sense to try out my bearings which come from a single source. It's not that I'm getting lazy and am trying to find excuses but will it make sense?

[ken_nyus]

One clue I would like to put out there for the bearings is this photo, this is the only one I have seen of the bearings, look at the upside down stator in the lower left of the photo:



The bearing is a little unusual to me, in that the outer race seems very thick.

Now one set of bearings that I ordered does look just like that, but the funny thing is they are bearings with ceramic balls, but they do have that thick looking outer race.

[vipond50]

One clue I would like to put out there for the bearings is this photo, this is the only one I have seen of the bearings, look at the upside down stator in the lower left of the photo:



The bearing is a little unusual to me, in that the outer race seems very thick.

Now one set of bearings that I ordered does look just like that, but the funny thing is they are bearings with ceramic balls, but they do have that thick looking outer race.

@ Ken

Yes I see what U mean. To bad someone could not cleanup the photo and pull the bearing number.
Would be Sweet to find out what it was

Bill

[Omnibus]

The more I'm looking at my rig the more the old problem seems to be popping up--as many have already said, the weights, especially the rotor weight may be the crucial factor, now that we have the proper magnets (I hope so). Not so much the bearings but the weights and the interplay of the fields due to the mutual disposition of the magnets. But then, again, why didn't @Craigy and @CLaNZeR get positive results with their seemingly lighter rotors. Could it be they were too light? Anybody know what their rotors' exact weight was?

One tends to think that a flywheel effect should be utilized but the flywheel may be just too heavy and won't allow the effect itself to emerge.

[Omnibus]

@All,

I wanna report the following. I just replaced a ring magnet and a bearing with a brand new (unused) ring magnet and an R3 bearing from the new batch I received today. With this new pair I wasn't able to achieve AGW no matter how much I tried. This time I didn't apply the Liquid Wrench Lubricating and Penetrating Oil I treated the old bearings with. When I replaced that new ring-bearing pair with an old one achieving AGW became easy again. Go figure.

EDIT: Now that I applied that penetrating lubricating oil my new ring-bearing pair is happily AGW-ing. So, the role of that penetrating oil someone was mentioning earlier in the thread cannot be overemphasized.