Working Magnetic Motor on you tube??

[vipond50]

Teflon bearings out of no longer working hard disk drives make great bearings

Dom
Are thinking of the fluid dynamic bearing use by Western Digital  ?
Problem here is availability of off the shelf components, so this would be a variant to the replication, correct?

Bill

[ken_nyus]

How about a group buy of the machined parts from a place like eMachineshop.com?

[CLaNZeR]

Got my 1/4 * 1/4 * 1/4 cubes today. So marked them up and mounted in Rotor.





Now just waiting for the Stator Magnets.

Cheers

Sean.

[Dom]

I don't think so Bill, FDB are or would be fairly new,,,, 3 of the drives that I rippped them out of are 80 to 100gig, ibm, is definitely one of them, The main spindle bearing has the backing plate which you can unscrew of the drive and use the whole assembly as is on the magnet motor board, there's another bearing which is the read/write arm bearing....
Thats what i'll be using, ask for defective drives at your local pc supplier, you might be surprised they might come to your aid.

Harddrive bearings spin fairly well.

[CLaNZeR]

This is interesting.









Might have to order more as they are only ?3.25 for 15 of them.