Your comment regarding contemporary magnets being too powerful made
and it seems it may be rather difficult to acquire suitable
weaker ones.
I had an idea though that I think might really speed progress up
in regards to researching Gary's device. Since its the balancing
and timing of the component parts to get it the oscillation to occur...
what if instead of spending months or years just manually trying
different distances and balancing acts with the parts, you took a
shortcut and cheated?
What I mean is, couldn't you simply sink the entire contraption
into a large clear tank filled with something like mineral oil,
then dump in a bunch of finely ground iron filings. Let the filings
create a 3 dimensional pattern around the magnets indicating the field
paths. Then as you begin to adjust the component parts you could easily
and simply see field effects and distortions occur in the fields as you
moved the parts about? Couldn't a person use this to precisely target
exactly where an adjustment should be made since you could clearly see
it take effect? I'm not sure if this sounds lame or not... just
guessing. Forgive my pedestrian knowledge about such things... it
just seemed to make sense at the time? Besides I remember seeing
a cool online site that showed how a magnets field could be seen in 3-D
when it was sunk into such a chamber. It was quite amazing to look at!
I had thought of doing the above on my own experiments with the Gary
motor... even bought the oil, filings and I even have tiny weak horseshoe
magnets... just haven't had the time yet, sigh!
Don