Howard Johnson Replication Tube Claim

[TinselKoala]

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.

I seem to be unable to reproduce this effect with my copper bar. I don't have any suitable aluminum at hand. Tomorrow...

[TinselKoala]

I just tried it again and it seems that it is only one side that does the
flipping over. I got mixed up with which side I used.
So I removed that post.

Darn.
As I was trying it, I rubbed off the blue, and one time I thot it did what you described. then I re-blued and can't reproduce it, so...Bad data, no problem, back to the drawing board.

(Either that, or that blue ink has some special magnetic properties...
NOT.)

[AbbaRue]

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 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??     

[Magluvin]

It would be weird if this and some other new findings show Mylow right about a few things and then someone replicates. It would make Sterlings book have a great ending. I would see the movie, Im already reading the book.

Magluvin

[Psyclone]

BTW, relative to eddy currents...

In this post: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mylow_magmo/message/1436 is a copy of an e-mail from (ying/yang disk maker?) "Bob" to Sterling with the following...

6.  One last thing.  I did a series of spindown tests with only the stator installed.  (No Rotor magnets at all)  Surprisingly  the eddy currents between the stator and the Aluminum disc were enormous.  The difference between the spin down times of a blank disc with no stator and  one with the stator was about approx 20 % loss just from the eddy currents.  Eddy currents are normally lossy but the magnitude was a surprise to me.These losses then have to be recovered somewhere along the way in trying to get a self running devise.

...I would assume that the stator has both N and S pointing down at the disk (and I'm not sure there's a good way around that), but it would be interesting to know the results from none/N-down/S-down rundowns.