Avoiding sticky point by making magnet dissapear.

[AB Hammer]

Greetings broli

If someone had the answer they would already have the magnet wheel that would not die. You will have to go more drastic with your measures to defeat the wall. What I have observed is that each stack of magnets work together so in a since each magnet group works as one. So if you have a group on one side and then the other you have 2 walls to break. This isn't much but I hope it helps. Last magnet wheel I built was back in 1974 and it ran for 1 1/2 days before it tore out the center of the cardboard wheel. It was my science project. It kind of loped around.

[neptune]

@AB HAMMER
      I believe that any magnet wheel that can run for one and a half days is capable of being of being improved to run for a much longer periods. Would you care to share the design? \\regards Neptune

[AB Hammer]

@neptune

All I can remember is that there were 4 magnets in the middle wheel and 8 on the outer side. Each piece was taped and glued and it was tricky setting each magnet to a point to counter act the (what seem to be called the wall) effect. The closest to it on youtube is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB2n9b_lY0k
But all and all this design is problematic that is why I am not trying to duplicate it, besides this guy has. But I do have a design that will be done soon enough.

[broli]

I came across this concept that I searched for on this forum but found nothing about. It's called the Dual Piston Device...

http://www.fdp.nu/dualpistondevice/default.asp

Now this looks interesting indeed and even another way to improve it is to add stationary magnets on the outside with the same shielding idea so that the magnets gets pushed back instead of relying on very far pull. If this works using that tin/rubber shielding it might be a winner.

[AB Hammer]

@broli

That one is a very interesting SMOT, but it looks hard pressed to be able to do anything else. But with what you are thinking, it should put you into a good direction.