V,
Today, went out and got a nice power supply for a Marinov bearing motor. 1200
ampere jump starter box.
Two high quality RBI ball bearings, 5/8" shaft size, were purchased. Mated them
to a shaft with an aluminum flywheel on the end, used a couple U bolts to hold
the bearings to a wooden base.
"Gave it a twist, a flick of the wrist, that's what the showman said," and then
applied power. Damn thing accelerated rapidly. Three friends were in my lab at
the time, and it rather dazzled them.
Guess I will be purchasing some galinstan for further experiments. Horace, I
will be printing your document and reading it.
On a side note to this topic, John Berry, I did build the power supply today as
well. Roughly 5.5kV out, negative WRT chassis ground. Going to run this off of
an old generator to keep it from being connected to the mains, as we don't know
what might happen. Probably nothing, but with my bad luck, I don't think I can
be too careful. More to come.
--Kyle
