Howard Johnson Replication Tube Claim

[CLaNZeR]

Mylow sent me these photos of Howard Johnson.  These are the photos he refers to as having been what spurred him to this present model.

Sterling many thanks for the updates.

Appreciatted this end and they are being posted to other areas on the internet where people are interested.

Cheers

Sean.

[AbbaRue]

A suggested quick test replication would be to place magnets on a disk with the same pole facing up,
instead of the usual, facing towards the stationary magnet.
The stationary magnet has it's poles facing in the direction of rotation instead of towards the moving magnets.
This whole setup is totally different from all the setups I have seen so far.
So this is the secret to getting a self runner.
The horseshoe shape used here may not even be needed, just the right orientation of the magnets.
The video with the compass  is priceless.

[CLaNZeR]

If it starts vibrating or moving he'll soon notice and stiffen it up.

Or patent the first FE Vibrator

[CLaNZeR]

The stationary magnet has it's poles facing in the direction of rotation instead of towards the moving magnets.
This whole setup is totally different from all the setups I have seen so far.

Yep thought this myself, out of all the replications I have tried I have never put the Stator on the inside of the Rotor.

Is there difference is the field, difference in the Torque produced?

Makes ya wonder 

[xee2]

I took a standard u-shaped horseshoe magnet and went around it with a compass and got the same type of results that Mylow got. I do not think the field is coming from the corners. It seems that the south end of the compass magnet is attracted to the north pole of the u-shaped magnet and is also simultaneously repelled by the south pole of the u-shaped magnet. The result is that the complass seems to be pointing to the corner. This applies to both the rotor magnets and the large stator magnet.

I think that he has standard horseshoe magnets with poles most likely oriented as in the following drawing.