Howard Johnson Replication Tube Claim

[nyctuber]

The fact that the magnet is repelled from the aluminum rod when placed
one way around and is attracted the other way around is a major breakthrough!!! 
This means that it's possible to make a magnetic gate.
If a magnets are mounted on a large aluminum disk one could make a
magnetic motor that runs itself.

Oh!! Wait a minute, isn't that what this thread is about??   

It doen't appear to be repelled, only to lose it's attraction when in motion at a steep angle.

[AbbaRue]

@TinselKoala 
I believe you may be up for a Nobel Prize for your discovery.
This needs to be documented, And we are all witnesses. 
This is definitely a major breakthrough.
Unless someone else has already made this discovery before. 
I have studied a lot of electronics and I have never come across this before.

[ALFPARTS]

I tried sliding a neo. magnet down a piece of aluminum and I found,
that the magnet starts to tumble every time I quickly turn the magnet
around and try letting it slide down.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/HBASE/Tables/magprop.html

http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/magnetic_materials.htm



I just noticed a comment by Dr. Schmitt:
This seems to make sense.

It's because the copper alloy that you are using is probably not is not pure electrolytic copper but a copper/ hard nickle ferromagnetic alloy. When you slide one pole along the surface of the copper bar it orients the the regions in the bar corresponding to the pole of the magnet. After the magnet is removed, the bar retains some respective orientation. Then when you reverse the magnet you are exposing two like poles face to face and thus the magnet just slides right by

[AbbaRue]

The magnet practically hops off the rod as it slides down.
The only reason the angle needs to be steep is so the repelling
force overcomes the pull of gravity on the weight of the magnet.
Also the steep angle makes the magnet move faster, thus producing
more electromagnetism. (eddy currents) 
A spinning aluminum disk would produce a strong eddy current and in
theory could overcome the sticky spot, if the magnets were placed the
right way around.

[RunningBare]

I agree it's a good explanation for copper alloy, and aluminum?, asking because I do not know what goes in to aluminum.

I just noticed a comment by Dr. Schmitt:
This seems to make sense.

It's because the copper alloy that you are using is probably not is not pure electrolytic copper but a copper/ hard nickle ferromagnetic alloy. When you slide one pole along the surface of the copper bar it orients the the regions in the bar corresponding to the pole of the magnet. After the magnet is removed, the bar retains some respective orientation. Then when you reverse the magnet you are exposing two like poles face to face and thus the magnet just slides right by