Working SMOT ramp from Tom Ferko ?

[magnetman12003]

Hi All,

If anyone is interested the 4.5 inch diameter ring magnets I am using can be purchased from www.surpluscenter.com  page 163.   $ 5.99 each plus shipping.        Tom

[dean_mcgowan]

magnetman .. please dont stand near the pointy end of your stick
otherwise we may not get any more posts from you .. might be the case of the skewered magnet man that becomes the next story of folly in the overunity forum.

I had an idea too instead of resting the point end against a board
would it be possible to mount a magnet on the board and an opposing one on the stick end to reduce friction further ?

[dean_mcgowan]

instead of this

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have this

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[hartiberlin]

Tom, your new videos are not very convincing,but your very first video was much better.
Why dont you just make much longer tracks as in the first video ?

[magnetman12003]

Hi,

The first video I made granted does work well but this linear track no matter how hard I tried did not lend itself to be made circular.

I got results as shown in my later videos but they all did not measure up to my expectations for power and speed. Any motor made will have to have both to be usefull.   I still am working on the track with different magnet setups hoping to get everthing I described previously going for me.  If I can do that then this can be made circular.

In the meantime I came across the levitated pencil setup I illustrated.
I  have already made many large levitated magnetic bearing setups but never in the way as illustrated with the pencil. 

If the pencil was tapered at both ends and they were placed inside fixed cone shaped end caps then there would be no way the shaft could "jump" out of this "entrapment".  Its axial movement would be limited when the shaft end points make contact with the insides of end cone caps.

I already have nine 4.5 inch diameter huge ring magnets and am starting to make the pencil setup on a large scale.  This magnetic bearing will be able to turn for an extremely long time due to inertia

I am going to experiment further using different configurations of magnets around one end of the ring magnet mounted on the shaft. Hopefully It will take only a very small force to keep the whole shaft turning forever.  This is the nearest thing to a motor configuration I have seen yet that makes sense.

If I am able to do that then maybe a self sustained motor can be made.     Total cost of 9 large heavy ring magnets about $54 plus shipping is very reasonable. Other than that only a wood framework and brass screws are needed.           I will have fun trying if anything else.  As you can see I like to work using large magnets.               Tom