ANOTHER MOTOR THAT DIDN'T, BUT PLEASE LOOK. IT HAS MERIT!!

[JohnPK]

At least Mylow's motor got me motivated to try an idea I had for years. It works in my head, but like most , the real motor won't. But please look at the photo. It is so stupid simple, that somebody should be able to get it to run.
All poles face the same direction. 3/16dia X .750 long. (1.500 gears.)
A simple steel mag shield is supposed to attract the front mags, and shield their ability to repel, until they get past the shield, then once past the shield they are supposed to take off like crazy and save the world.
I tried different thickness shield, but nothing worked for me. I hope it gives somebody an idea.
Enjoy my first attempt. I'll be back......John

[gyulasun]

Hi John,

Very nicely built setup.  I have seen similar drawings on such setups in old patents and one of them had a V shaped screen where you have now the plate shield. The apex of the V shape pointed towards the center between the two wheels, guided even further, passing a little over the center line of the two axles.  Also, the arms of the V coming away from the apex were gradually thickening, following the circle shape of the gears for about a quarter of the full circle so that the magnets next to the two shield walls could also attract better to the shield, increasing torque.  It is true I have never seen a working prototype...     If you think I can look up the patent numbers by tomorrow, maybe something else can turn out of them for you. 

What I can judge from your picture the diameter of your gears (i.e the rotating disks) are small for the possible strength of the Neo magnets.  Too strong and maybe distorted static field near to each other, would be better to use at least gears of a CD disk diameter or even bigger.  It is sure that with a thick enough V shape shield the magnets will not "see" each other till the apex of the V...  but the question is whether it is already enough condition for running? 

Keep up the good work.
rgds,  Gyula

[JohnPK]

Gyula, Thanks for the reply, I bought three pairs of gears. Those are 1.500" Dia. I also have 2.000" and 2.250". If I make another attempt at this, I was going to fix the magnets so they meet horizontally like two pencils with erasers pointing towards each other. I would place them on a separate plane, off the gears, and make them come within .050 of an inch of meeting. This I would do on the 2.250 gear set. I allready have the holes drilled and tapped on that fixture plate.
Making the fixture to hold the magnets would take a couple days across my manual machines. But I wanted to try once more with the same magnets. I really didn't want to try to space them further apart' mostly because of the minimal amount of work the motor would create. I want to make motors that fly planes and power cars. not just light up a LED bulb. If this motor turned, I envisioned 5 or 7 gears laying side by side,

[JohnPK]

And now that I posted that PDF, I see an older drawing got downloaded with the magnets still parallel to each other. So use your imagination and lay them like pencils, eraser to eraser....It's late for me.
....John

[tournamentdan]

Nothing can shield a magnetic field, except another magnet or super conductors. And so I do not know where this idea is coming from or where it is going. Please tell me the material that you are using to shield.