leedskalnin flywheel

[mr Wiggl3s]

Hard to believe he stood there for hours, spinning his wheel, just to charge
a battery.  I think he was more efficient then that.

Lol.

Hello.

I am an auto restorer, and after looking at Ed's Flywheel I can tell you with some Certainty that it is made mostly of old ford model T parts form the magneto and the fly wheel (2 of them one on top and one on the bottom) to hold the magneto Permanent  magnets in place. The center parts appear to be transmission hubs and may have the coils inside.
The original ford magneto used 16 "V" shaped permanent magnets and the unit put out about 10v at 450 rpm and from 20v to 40v  at full throttle.

Ed being the man he was made use of all the parts he had around and did a fine job at it. I believe that he used the 5 stack of magnets because he did not have an engine to run the generator and at the speed he could turn it by hand the 5 stack would be able to produce the power needed to charge his batteries and make the power for other equipment he had.

  You can still buy these parts at http://www.snydersantiqueauto.com/modeltparts/magneto

  And for more information on the workings of the ford magneto please check out http://www.mtfca.com/encyclo/Ignition.pdf

I hope I was helpfull to you.

The cog'd wheel rings were from the flywheel i think. Where do you think they came from?

I'm more than sure i could mimic this machine exactly. I could also get it to work the way he intended, as a magnetic motor. I don't have the money though.

Does anyone know of a site for people that are looking into this, specifically?

[scotty1]

Leedskalnin.net is the place where Ed's wheel is one of the main projects.
At the moment we are re-writing Ed's notes.
I have all the magnets and 4 flywheels to make Ed's wheel...plus I have 3 sets of model T coils, and the center hub.
I can get most other parts too. A friend of mine from our Blacksmith's club is building a model T and he likes me to come and clear his junk...
Now I have found an old 5 HP motor at my work so i brought it home to mount my magnets on..It has strong bearings and feet for mounting to a frame, plus it has a keyed shaft.
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When dealing with Ed you have to remember that his theories are different from mainstream science.
One difference is that in Ed's theory the magnetic field around a conductor is not closed loops.
The field only appears closed when you put a needle in it to measure it.
In Ed's theory the needle does not really measure the field at all, but the field uses the needle as a path to run in...and so it looks closed, but really it wasn't, until you measured it. 

I won't go into it, but as you can see, Ed's theory is different.
I can make the model T magnets into all kinds of dynamo's, but to do it the way Ed did is another story. You have to think like him and understand the same theory, otherwise you are making your own model and not a replication of the intended model.

Scotty.

P:S...Ed wrote.
"Astronomers do not know what causes seasons. All planets and the sun have magnet poles.
The magnet poles are pulling and pushing the Earth in axis way. The Earth’s summer end is
always a stronger magnet pole than the winter end, and that causes the Earth to slide axis
way and make the seasons.
Millions of people all over the world have been fooled, including myself, by wrong drawing
in geography books, in showing how the Earth’s yearly path around the sun causes summer
and winter. In fact the drawings are wrong. I was lucky. I made a rock telescope and a rock
sundial and they defooled me. Now I know the right path the Earth follows. The scientists
should come to the ROCK GATE, Homestead, Florida, and have a look at the new drawing,
the telescope and the sundial, and see how they would affect science."
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[mr Wiggl3s]

Leedskalnin.net is the place where Ed's wheel is one of the main projects.
At the moment we are re-writing Ed's notes.
I have all the magnets and 4 flywheels to make Ed's wheel...plus I have 3 sets of model T coils, and the center hub.
I can get most other parts too. A friend of mine from our Blacksmith's club is building a model T and he likes me to come and clear his junk...
Now I have found an old 5 HP motor at my work so i brought it home to mount my magnets on..It has strong bearings and feet for mounting to a frame, plus it has a keyed shaft.
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When dealing with Ed you have to remember that his theories are different from mainstream science.
One difference is that in Ed's theory the magnetic field around a conductor is not closed loops.
The field only appears closed when you put a needle in it to measure it.
In Ed's theory the needle does not really measure the field at all, but the field uses the needle as a path to run in...and so it looks closed, but really it wasn't, until you measured it. 

I won't go into it, but as you can see, Ed's theory is different.
I can make the model T magnets into all kinds of dynamo's, but to do it the way Ed did is another story. You have to think like him and understand the same theory, otherwise you are making your own model and not a replication of the intended model.

Scotty.

P:S...Ed wrote.
"Astronomers do not know what causes seasons. All planets and the sun have magnet poles.
The magnet poles are pulling and pushing the Earth in axis way. The Earth’s summer end is
always a stronger magnet pole than the winter end, and that causes the Earth to slide axis
way and make the seasons.
Millions of people all over the world have been fooled, including myself, by wrong drawing
in geography books, in showing how the Earth’s yearly path around the sun causes summer
and winter. In fact the drawings are wrong. I was lucky. I made a rock telescope and a rock
sundial and they defooled me. Now I know the right path the Earth follows. The scientists
should come to the ROCK GATE, Homestead, Florida, and have a look at the new drawing,
the telescope and the sundial, and see how they would affect science."
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Yea i saw your videos on youtube. And "When dealing with Ed you have to remember that his theories are different from mainstream science.", that's why i wanted to find a site specifically for him, to discuss what he thought.

[sm0ky2]

i searched for years for a good ED resource. aside from the books ED himself wrote, the best source of information out there is Scotty's site.  i havent been to coral castle myself, but talking to people from there, and reading the research done on the subject, most of Ed's motor was dissassembled and/or mising by the time anyone got to it to document what was there.

there have been a few 'good' studies of the device, in cooridination with one of the companies that has owned the castle (not sure who owns it now....) most of what is on the internet i have found to be theorizing at best, some just outright bogus. people are selling off old truck parts as "leedskalnin motor kits"....

my understanding of the device is that the large magnetic wheel was driven by magnets on an axle ( the other axle he didnt use on the door) weights, and chains actuated the axle in several "gears" , or secondary shafts the machine 'shifted' through. this was controlled by the armerature in the center, as a bar traveled along the clovershaped rim, it would crank the gear-mechanism 4 times per rotation, shifting back to the original one at the begining of the next cycle.  unfortuantely not much is known about wether this shifting action 'winded up' the weights, or just selected which weight to turn th machine with, or a combination of both....  its a lot more complex than the infamous picture of a geared ring and magnets under it....

[uncleshorty]

Howdy! I went to rock gate. An amazing feat of human inovation if he really built and moved it by himself. His magnetic flywheel is fixed to the harmonic balancer end of a model T cranck shaft. the magnets still have magnetisum. I read his thery on magnets that are everywhere and come from sunlight and the earth. Plants catch the magnets with the leaves and digest the magnets with the use of water and cloraphorm. Ed has three stone lounge chairs that he read on. A morning chair an afternoon chair, and a late afternoon chair. I read about sun gazing where people say you can get nurishment from sunlight going for years without food. Only drinking water. Mabe to make hydrocloric acid to digest the magnets that enter the nervous system through the eyes and other receptors. After reading his literiture I thought that a search for bodies around the property should be cunducted. He had alot of opinions of sex and young girls and upbringing. He had built a stone dundgon where a child could be lifted and there head inserted in a hole and then lowered into a narrow slide holding the unlucky by the neck. He had no children. He had no wife but there was a slot for her to in the dundgon. There where no coils around thr array of spinnins magnets. The tour guild said the wires went into the ground.