A SQUARE MAGNETIC RAIL -- ROTOR 360 ROTATION

[magnetman12003]

Hi,

I just used regular cheap masking tape.  First I cut a small block of wood at a 45degree angle to reference the first magnet on the track.

I glued that block on the track so it was very secure. Then I layed my first disk magnet on the wood block side at a 45 degree angle and taped it.  Every magnet after that was secured by a section of masking tape. I practiced this on a wood 12 inch ruler.  Found however there was some magnet shifting later so maybe taping is not the answer.

I like your idea about hot glueing.  I wonder how a PVC plastic tube will bond to hot glue and if I can stick ceramic magnets to the tube wall using hot glue. I noticed that hot glue when set is a little flexible and that might be ok in making a long curved run.

The hose setup you saw illustrated would have the magnets mounted on the "BOTTOM SIDE" so the ball would roll with ease all around the smooth inside bottom of the tube track "without touching the tube walls" Should buildup speed.

Just before the pont where the dropoff hole is I would snake the magnet track around onto a tube "WALL" side where the balls weight then would be to much for the wall to carry and the ball will fall through the drilled hole between the tubes. Starts its journey over again.  This looks like the most simplest inexpensive way to make a SMOT I could think of.

Whats your thoughts?

Tom

[nightlife]

 I had thought about using a clear tube too but I am thinking of a different way right now although I still think it is a good idea. I am not sure if you are going to get the ball to drop because I have not had any luck yet but that doesn't mean it cant be done. I also think you are ending your array in the design to close to the start. The closer you get to closing the loop, the more over all magnetic pole effect you get which then makes the ball stop in the middles because the ball seeks the end and in a loop, there are two starts and two ends. Middles, LOL

  I have to do some more testing which means more arrays which means more frustration, damn it! LOL

I'll post some more results later tonight or tomorrow depending on how much I can get done tonight.

[TinselKoala]

So what happened to the square magnetic rail that started this thread? I thought that was sure to work. Now the design has changed into the garden-hose tube SMOT?
Isn't this very like the Archer Quinn thread? A promised design is abandoned, while we watch someone learn about magnets, and the "sure to work" design keeps changing?

[nightlife]

TinselKoala, Toms main concept is still in play here and that is the arrangement of the magnets and who knows, we still may use the square magnetic rail before it's over.

We are all still in the designing stage and if you have any idea's, please state them.

[nightlife]

Tom, here is a concept that may work with your square and it may be able to get the ball to go all the way around. It can be thought of as closing the loop but I think having the corner magnets weaker may prove to be what is needed.