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  • It does not work because you are going about it the wrong way. DO NOT USE METAL in your set up, that will just cause a conflict with your magnets.

  • @jtridexter Hi I did change the metal gears to plastic because they were becoming magnetic, and the spindles were non magnetic stainless. The previous comment from Stefan suggested to make the distances adjustable so today I made some more gears to space out the spindles. I am still 99.99% positive that it won't work but I had nothing to do so I thought I would do a video on how to make the gears anyway, which I am hoping to upload tonight. Regards Tim

  • Well done, but

    to get this to work you need a very fine tuneable setup, where you can test various thicknesses of metals between the 2 wheels and at least a 1/10th of a millimeter adjustable gaps and distances..

    Also you need a "v" shaped thickness varying metal between the magnet wheels...

    Still a lot to finetune in your setup. If it would be so easy, there would already dozens of motors running...

    Regards, Stefan.

  • @overunitydotcom Hi there is plenty of adjustment between the wheels about 6mm, I made some sleeves to fit the bearings in and the bearings fit into them off centre so I can turn the sleeves to move the wheels and gears together. You can see them in the video. Thanks for the comment though.

    regards Tim

  • At one point, you have the "shielding" placed across the entire cross-section between the two sets of magnets. The concept requires that the shielding only be present across a portion of it. Second, the magnets seem offset; wouldn't maximum repulsive force be pole-to-pole? Third, magnet strength - sufficient for purpose?

    Of course, even if this were to work, you couldn't extract usable power from it.

  • @Bandaloope Hi thanks for the comment, I only pushed the sheilding right through both sides of the device just to show that the repelling effects of the magnets were still there, you could see that because of the rocking motion just before it stopped. Your second point that the magnets were offset is not true, these were drilled using whats called a dividing attatchment on a milling machine and lined up perfectly. Thirdly,I used neodymium magnets which are the strongest you can get.

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  • try three rows of magnets off set from each other all the other magnet motors that I've seen work on you tube have three rows offset.

  • Make a metal comb because in the way that U are going you are creating Edie currents! read a bit about it! it will give U tons of Ideas about it! Good luck!

  • per the laws of thermodynamics this will never work. Parasitic friction alone will stop the motion but even with frictionless surfaces there is still drag. Perhaps if you could use friction free surfaces (don't exist) in a perfect vacuum (probably impossible) this would spin for a long time... but you won't ever get more energy out of it then you put in initially when you start it spinning.

  • @themetalcutter it does not work because your little steel plate does not "shield" the magnets from one another... The magnetic fields pass through steel more easily then the surrounding air. This causes more magnetic field lines to pass through the plate clsoer together. The fields of both magnets still interact within the plate however... And the magnets are also pulled back to the plate after being moves away. Ultimately it is no different weather the plate is there or not.

  • I have a couple other ideas no this. Look up "Occupy Electrons!" on Facebook. Like you, I also have machinist capabilities and will be building a dual axis design, but they will be set to rotate in the same direction and geared together.

  • @overunitydotcom ; "...to get this to work you need a very fine tuneable setup...."

    ... and a source of energy.

  • @jtridexter ; "It does not work because you are going about it the wrong way."

    Obviously. For a motor to work, a source of energy must be added. No where in this video is there any source of energy even suggested or hinted at.

  • And with three magnetics?

  • try this .youtube.com/watch?v=GauEZ-6hn­bg

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