Howard Johnson Replication Tube Claim

[Butch LaFonte]

My dogs water bowl is one foot square and sits on top of a steel plate put there by the previous owner of my home. We have a large iron content in our soil here in Birmingham, Alabama and I noticed that when the soil in the water settled in the bowl over night that it formed a magnetic field pattern on the bottom of the bowl. I wonder if Mylows magnet turns out to be a true self runner it is due to it's magnet components interacting with the earths magnetic field? I would like to see the motor turned at 45 and 90 degrees to the earths surface to see if it still self starts and self runs. If this interaction turns out to be the case does that mean that the motor's torque is relative to the strength of the earths local magnetic field? That would make it just a laboratory curiosity with no practical use. Could the earths field be increased or replaced by a man made field to get more torque? I think it is well worth the trouble to try and self start and self run the motor at 45 and 90 degrees to see if this is a possibility.
Thanks,
Butch LaFonte

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I am not sure if these Bar Magnets are Ferrites.

Looking around at various magnet suppliers traditionally ferrites are blocks and alnicos are bars.

Look at the picture below. Are we sure these are not just alnico bars painted black?

Is that just chipped paint?

Ferrite is hard and brittle and chips real easy .. Alinco is much tougher and does not chip.

Mylows magnets all seem to have very nice clean edges
i agree they look a bit Alinco and less like ceramic(ferrite) ..

The white stuff could be cray glue or super glue from being glued before. 

Hardest thing about trying to replicate Mylow's stuff is lack of accurate technical information - things like stator polarities and measurements magnet types etc etc.. .
Found this aspect quite frustrating myself.
Looks deceivingly simple.
Knot !

 

[deseret]

I believe he said the bar magnets came from Radio Shack.  I am thinking the markings are from the glue he uses.

[CLaNZeR]

I am getting a Spyware alert everytime I look at this thread, Stefans adverts are doing weird stuff again grrrrrr

I have used exactly the same Crazy Glue as mylow and it does not leave that much white. But it will remove black paint.

But I agree could be some sort of glue, and he done a very neat job of getting it square on certain magnets.

[Pirate88179]

@ Clanzer:

Xee2 recently posted this over on our Joule Thief topic:

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He is using IE and the screenshot he posted looks as though it got in using IE.  This is why I use Firefox which Stefan said, this site is designed with Firefox in mind for optimal performance.

Bill