Working Magnetic Motor on you tube??

[Dom]

Here's my attempt so far, just started it today, should have it done by today, im hoping anyway...lol

bearings ripped out of HDD, one on nylon disk was forced in by using drill press, thx for the tip who mentioned this in this thread.
The 4 smaller bearings you see there on that brass screw were actually taken from the one housing, if you force the shaft through, you will get at least two bearings from the one.

Oh the reason theres those large squares cut out, is because this was from another project i was doing, for bedini rotor.
I used drill press to do all the work here and small file.

[m0thman]

Have been watching this thread with great interest.  Just wishing all you replicators (nothing to do with Stargate) all the best success.  I'd have a go and indeed had some ideas of my own but currently suffering from FIAS due to lack of funds, tools and materials   

[ken_nyus]

What about the dampers? From my reading the original configuration would not work without them...

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...the unit runs faster without the magnokinetic Judson dampers. Typical stator speeds are 8000 rpm, rotor 2000. But the unit is quite unstable at those speeds, maybe due to the cheap bearings I used for the stators. But that's unknown, it could be that the bearing chatter actually contributes to the effect by some chaotic dynamical interaction. Don't ask me with what!

Anyway the unit will run up to high speed but only stays for a short time before the stator "drops out" and the rotor freewheels to a stop. I figured that a little eddy-current damping at high speeds (and proportionally less at low speeds, so the damping at startup speeds is essentially zero.) would do the trick.

There was an adjustment process that took a couple hours to find the sweet spot and the orientation, and it seemed so close to an already drilled and tapped set of holes in the base, that I just used the existing holes, even though the positioning wasn't totally optimum. It seems to do what I intended. I never anticipated the need for these dampers when I was laying out the unit.
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[Craigy]

i will worry about the dampers when i have the magnets, any way , without the dampers it still sped up to unbelievable revs, so i will be looking for that before i install them..

[Omnibus]

What's FIAS?