Fascinating, yes.
Take a lenght of wire (the inventor claims he used a welding rod - about
3mm diameter) and bend it into a loop (circle) with enough wire left at one
end to bend a spoke into the centre of the loop and a short axle so that
when the axle ia placed into a bearing the loop can be rotated like a
wheel. The loop, the spoke, and the axle are bent from one welding rod. The
loop should be electrically open (a gap) so that each end of the bent wire
can be connected to the current source for magnetisation.
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Hope these 'drawings' help.
Bill.
At 23:28 25/03/98 +0500, you wrote:
>Hi Bill!
>
>Facinating about the magnetized wire!
>
>You said the wire was formed in the shape of a circle [with an axle]?
>Could you please better explain the axle bit or do a simple drawing?
>Do you mean like a spoked wheel?
>
>I need to know before I could provide you with ideas how to magnetize
>it properly!
>
>Also, have you seen the stuff at http://www.dnai.com/~zap ?
>
>Thanks!
><Dave>
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>> Bill McMurtry wrote:
>> The device itself simply consists of two steel welding rods which
>> are bent in such a way that each forms a loop with a short axle.
>> When these two loops of wire are made so that one fits inside the
>> other (one loop smaller than the other) and magnetised with a heavy
>> current (the relative orientation of the current through the loops
>> was important), it is claimed that a torque exists between the two
>> wire loops.
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