A SQUARE MAGNETIC RAIL -- ROTOR 360 ROTATION

[TinselKoala]

Won't roll all the way around, either!

(Don't get mad, just prove me wrong!!)

[nightlife]

TinselKoala, you maybe right but it sure is worth a try and one thing I noticed is that the longer the rail, the faster the ball gets and you may have to add to the rail to get the ball to move fast enough to go around the curve.

Keep up the good work Tom, you definitely have my attention.

[magnetman12003]

Hi Nightlife,

I cut a perfect circle from an old plastic sewer pipe and it fits my box setup insides perfectly. When I placed the steel ball inside the circle it will roll a short way from where its closest to the track and looses power.

Now if you let that same ball roll straight aways on the track sides close to the magnet rail the ball goes fast. I figure a ball nees a little momentum to pass whatever smooth curve I place in the "ROUNDED CORNERS".   If I can do that sucessfully the ball will roll forever from side to side as long as magnetic power exists.  Right now the steel ball will roll each of the straight 4 inside rail sides with ease and-- no crossovers !

Say all was accomplished--- Of what commercial use could it be except a museum curiosity??

Tom

[nightlife]

 A magnet could be attached to four wheels and then a coil could be wrapped around the box and the magnetic movement would create a current in the coil that could be collected and stored in a battery. That is just one of many ways it could possibly be utilized.

[TinselKoala]

Well, if "all was accomplished" means that the ball goes around and around, all by itself, until you stop it--that would be perpetual motion, and it would be a successful SMOT, and it would win a lot of "free energy" awards and prizes, and could be the basis for a generator that really would free us from the tyranny of oil, and Archer Quinn could say, "I told you so", and Omnibus would be vindicated...

Does the term "fire 2.0" mean anything to you?

Why, if you get the ball to go around the square continuously without outside intervention I just might give you the thousand dollars that Archer couldn't win, back in the "20th of June" thread.

C'mon, it's a SMOT !!