magnetic flux shielding idea

[freeenergyman2005]

I was first attracted to the idea of magnetic shielding  in the 80's, but shelved my drawings when I realized no material was available with the properties necessary to shield magnets. Around six months ago I stumbled across a reference by Tom Bearden on a Symetrical Magnet Motor. Here it is:

http://www.freeenergynews.com/Directory/Inventors/Bearden/SymmetricalPermanentMagnetMotor/index.html

Then, around December 2004 I bought a sheet of Mumetal from Physlink. Mumetal can be cut with scissors and is highly permeable to magnetic flux. I tried every permutation I could imagine to shield the approaching like poles, but to no avail. The problem is that Mumetal is also attracted to magnets, hence, the age old problem of breaking past the gate.

Best of luck,

Howard

[KoenL]

Making a magnetic 'monopole' I assume is much like
creating a 'single side magnet', which involved arranging
several magnets in such a way that the flux gets
'rerouted' according to a planned path...
I don't think this is really creating a monopole, nor
magnetic shielding, but rather just smart flux rerouting...
Which does not mean it can be very usefull.
I'll attach a pic of an example rerouted flux path.

Kind regards,
Koen

[hartiberlin]

Hi All,
check out this Halbach array :

http://www.matchrockets.com/ether/halbach.html

[KoenL]

Stefan,

yes, that is almost exactly what I'm talking about.
I hadn't seen that site before, but toying around with a number
of magnets it is very easy to figure out that something like
that works.
In the case of my eaxmple there would still be some flux on the sides of
the magnet array, whereas there is as good as none in the case
that is shown on that site. The flux 'direction' or polarity is different
in both cases, though. But the fact remains that that is what I
was talking about.
Thanks for adding that link! It's good to have an observant
monitor. ;-)

Oh, and of course, in my last post in this thread, I meant to
say "That does not mean it is NOT usefull", instead of
"... it is usefull". Sorry about that, I was a bit too quick on the trigger. ;-)

regards,
Koen

[dracozny]

i think some pc speaker magnet configurations may appear similar to a monopole in one speaker i found 2 magnets strapped with brass coated steel there was a solid disk on one side then a ring magnet on the other with both north ends attached to the steel with glue, although the magnets are quite willing to fight each other to stay on the steel, the steel piece then has a protrusion going through the ring magnet the result is a south magnet with a very strong north center.
just an observation that may be helpfull