The Bucking Magnet Motor

[z.monkey]

There, got the plates cleaned up...
On to drilling and tapping...

[z.monkey]

Got the stator drilled, tapped, and populated...
Look, its my first quantum singularity...

[z.monkey]

Fixin' to drill, tap, and populate the rotor...
My fingers are very sore.  Like I have a sunburn on my fingertips.
Using various files to grind the cants, then placing the magnets
on the stator was very tedious.  Also have a lot of cuts from the
metal edges.  LOL! some holiday...

[z.monkey]

I have the stator partially populated here, ran out of magnets...
Need to get another 30 on order.  The repulsion on this set
of plates is greater.  The clearance is only 50 mils, so the
magnets are a lot closer together, and they are facing each
other more directly.  If you give the rotor a push it will go a
few turns and then find that balance point and jiggle to a stop.
Hopefully when I get the rest of the magnets installed I will
have all those balance points covered...

[z.monkey]

In that last post it should have been the rotor is partially populated...

Gee, lucky me, the price of neodymium magnets has suddenly gone up
by 30 to 35 percent.  Before I paid $1.72 for the 1/2 inch square magnets
and now they are $2.43.  The magnets that I want to use for NeoMag8
were $10.99 for a pair (need 4 pairs) and now they are $16.99.

Think this has something to do with China restricting rare earth materials?