Feynman makes a Bedini Motor

[Feynman]

While waiting for parts, I decided to start on a Bedini motor with the help of a friend.  These are some pictures of the construction.


No power tools in the ghetto


ABEC-9 skate bearings. 


What a lovely shade of puke


Okay, so we do have power tools .


Neodynium magnets, 345HP


Upon advice of my friend, I put the ferrite rod inside a piece of copper brass pipe. Brilliant idea right? Only after I tried wrapping the coil did I realize that the brass was shielding the ferrite. 


The coil that could never be.


The world iz more like sovieet russia ebery day


Once I rebuild the coil, I should be able to get this thing to spin.  Once I manage that, I will wind a nice trifilar coil to try to replicate some Bedini radiant energy effects.

[WilbyInebriated]

nice to see another person working on a replication.
is that tube copper or brass? it looks brass in the picture but it could be from the camera or my monitor.

[Feynman]

Oh you are right, it is brass

I'm pretty sure that it was doing some shielding.   I'm thinking of winding the coil directly on the ferrite instead. . .

[helmut]

Hello  Feynman
Good Luck with your Bedini.

Thats the moment that i take my Bedini Parts out of the Box and whipe the dust out of it.

It ist very interesting to see how you will make your Core (coil) in practice.
Until now i had welding rods in use.
But the next core i will try to use cheap and simple iron Nails.
Cut the big end and put them togeteher as a zylinder shaped big core.Fixed with some
Tesla tape,?hh tesa tape , and grind the ends to a suitable form.
Maybe someone will be inspired by that.

How you will do the switch?

helmut

[WilbyInebriated]

@feynman

thanks for the clarification on the brass/copper.
i was asking because a friend of mine and myself had discussed the same thing once, winding the coil on a copper tube instead of plastic. we were thinking of using the copper tube as sort of a "third" coil. we never got around to it and your post made me think of it again. maybe i will get ambitious and wind up a new coil using a copper tube as the form.
thanks again