Howard Johnson Replication Tube Claim

[norman6538]

An old codger who was first a blacksmith and then an ace auto mechanic and loves
the old time gas engines with horseshoe magnet ignition systems takes a wire
and wraps it around the horseshoe several times and then strikes the wires to the
battery posts thereby magnetizing the horseshoe and thus restoring the magnet
and restoring the spark needed to run the old time gas engine. And he knew the
righthand rule to get the magnet pole right.  I'd start with a nail if I wanted specific
polarity then upscale it to the desired material.

But I'm guessing that with neos these days the neo is a better way to do it.


I am really sorry to hear the Mylow committed the expermintal's cardinal sin -
"never take a working device apart!!!.

I had 2 such devices that I took apart or
moved and never saw them work again.

I learned that before I made my pendulum
that swings higher than its dropped point at http://student.ccbcmd.edu/~norman/magwork.html

Norman

[nrg_revolution]

@stefan     I'm glad you found some value in my FEMM simulation NEO40 vs Alnico5. As I think its very important that some folks replicate Mylow's work exactly as he did it ( for verification reasons), equally important is that others try to address the problem of the demagnetization of the Alnico's.

@wattsup  I believe the problems that Mylow experienced after re-magnetizing  the stator with the neo was it simply made the stator too strong for his current setup. If one goes the route of neo's they will need to adjust the spacing more widely apart and use permability plates to redirect and bleed off some of the flux to dumb down the stronger neo's.

Of course this is all contingent on the validity of Mylow's unit in the first place. I personally feel 99% sure its legit, but its the 1% that bothers me.

Good luck to all replicators! Hopefully soon I'll find the time to hit the bench one more time.

Steve Needham

[BEP]

Since repeated reassembly, with repeated good results, was the norm for this motor I doubt the cardinal sin was that he took it apart.

Re magnetizing the stator with neos and not doing it to match the original field was a sin.

Like a previous poster shows in a story about an old 'codger' simply applying another magnet is not the correct method for any dead magnet.

Magnetic flux is like a bundle of rubber bands. You must stretch or draw them into the shape you want, if you wish a specific field shape.

IMO: The cardinal sin was getting a somewhat academic involved before the true function was 'nailed down' and thoroughly documented.

In every case I've seen like this, the device and the inventor simply go away when this happens.

We all know the opinions of those touting the use of so-called qualified people to take control of such projects. My opinion is based upon the fact I am employed solely to make things work again after pin heads say it can't work that way. They then make 'improvements or corrections' and it is broke. They can't fix it. So I do.

At this time I wouldn't be surprised if they simply can't make it work now.

TMK HJ used two stator magnets, one next to the other but slightly offset with reversed poles and a fixed spacing between them. The stator magnets 'shorted' each other unless they were close enough to a rotor magnet for the 'short' to conduct to the rotor until a space was hit. Then the short between the stator ends reconnected.

In other words: the stator magnet has eight individual poles.

So is my story and I'm sticking with it. (Pun intended)

[Omnibus]

@BEP

IMO: The cardinal sin was getting a somewhat academic involved before the true function was 'nailed down' and thoroughly documented.

In every case I've seen like this, the device and the inventor simply go away when this happens.

We all know the opinions of those touting the use of so-called qualified people to take control of such projects.

I wonder if you remember the short story by the Czech author Karel Chapek entitled “The Man Who Knew How to Fly”: http://www.bgu.ac.il/~arikc/fly.html . This is a story of a man who suddenly discovered how to fly and who lost that ability when appearing before a commission of academicians who tried to improve his technique from an academic point of view. Very telling story.

[i_ron]

It looks like the stator magnet is now higher than it was before.

No... if you watch the video he has it up on a book to match the previous height.

Ron