Yes, thats the same one I have, one long thin shaft
with a large ball holding a magnet on one end and a
small ball on the other end, the two barbells attached
to it also have magnets and seem to give adding
inertia if the timing is right.
Its a neat toy that runs on a 9 volt battery for about
a month...people at work walk by my desk all the time
and stare at it wondering why it keeps running...its
fun to jerk their chain about a 'local gravity well'
since the battery is hidden...wow, watch out Dennis
Lee!!
--- Nick Hall <nick@domini.org> wrote:
> At 15:29 11/02/00 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >His description was of a barbell that was magnetic
> and moves back and forth, continually and he says
> without any outside power or battery type source
> that he could detect, even when stopping it, he put
> it back on and it started running again.
>
> I`m getting deja vu.......
> I phoned up someone in the town and after a _very
> long_ story discovered that my local tourist shop
> was selling exactly the same `perpetual motion
> wheel` for 10 USD!!!!
>
> It has a small battery and electromagnet in the base
> which is energised as the magnet on swinging gizmo
> passes a (also hidden) reed relay.
>
> It looked so neat and I was so amused by the episode
> that I bought one....
>
> I`m not saying this thing in Mexico is the same but
> I`m not holding my breath!!
>
> Thanks
>
> Nick Hall
>
> Manchester UK
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