Howard Johnson Replication Tube Claim

[JoinTheFun]

couldn't we buy a bucket-load of these, have them sent to mylow, and he could film a run with them placed all around the unit, and on cat, bird, etc.? It might help replicators as well as maybe further convince the skeptics that the magnets aren't made out of chocolate? even just queue's one compass i thought made for some pretty interesting results.

(edit: humph. i've hyperlinked things above but, at least in firefox, they seem to be invisible unless you mouse-hunt for them.)

Never mind all that.
Since PMMTester is accompanying the principal to Johnson's grave, I expect PT to do some PMM testing.

[tournamentdan]

I keep reading that the magnets degauss, has mylow verified this?  Any answers as to how long it takes them to degauss and why they are degaussing?  If he's using weak magnets, they would normally degauss over time anyway.  He should see if rare earth magnets will degauss the same, I would think they don't (unless the device really does pull energy from them).

I am not sure but I think that was on his first model. I am just guessing, I have not seen any plans, but I believe that the magnets on the plate will loose the magnetic flux at a regular rate because they are all facing north to south or vice versa. The stator magnet might do the same since it is so far away.  For rare earth magnets, or I only know the rate for neodymium is that it will loose one percent of it's energy per ten years. That is if the magnets are face to face(north to north) are at the same strength. If one is much stronger than the other the smaller will loose much faster.

[IotaYodi]

They aren't moving in relation to one another - or are they? Certainly not when the disk is not turning 

The aluminum platter is moving under the stator magnets. The bar holding the stators is also aluminum. I would think that with 2 stators there would be some type of repulsion against the aluminum platter and/or bar. Even with one stator I would imagine. With the repulsion of the rotor magnets against the stator,they may be inducing another repulsion against the aluminum platter. Magnetic film may be able to see it.

[lumen]

All the rotor magnet poles that are facing the aluminum plate, are delayed response while the top pole have the usual response.

One entire section of rotor magnets simply make a single larger magnet and displays the usual attraction to reach the magnets end.

It's the response time at the ends of these rotor sections that make the difference!

Observation only.

[CLaNZeR]

I am not sure if these Bar Magnets are Ferrites.

Looking around at various magnet suppliers traditionally ferrites are blocks and alnicos are bars.

Look at the picture below. Are we sure these are not just alnico bars painted black?

Is that just chipped paint?