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----- Original Message -----
From: Sterling D. Allan
To: Mylow newsletter
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 2:27 AM
Subject: brief report of my attempt so far
I spent about six hours playing with the set-up Bob made, and had some close calls, but no full rotation yet.
Be sure you are not ascribing uni-directional trend to the magnets when in fact the wheel might not be level. For a minute there, I thought I was going to get it for sure. Then I checked the level.
I came up with the idea of gluing the sets to plastic, which I can then move easily, without having to re-glue everything every time I want to move things over.
I've not yet tried gluing each magnet to an individual piece of plastic so I can move it and tape it down easily. But that would be easier than re-gluing. I'm getting better at gluing straight up on first attempt, but I get one crooked about every third time and have to re-do it.
Hot glue gun is very fast and forgiving.
I also came up with a way to easily space and align the small gap between magnets in a set, using a hanger from the center post and putting a small plastic jig in the right position.
I shot lots of video and a few photos. Need to go to bed now, though.
Sterling
p.s. I guess it was just WW Sales, then, that doesn't sell to end users, just distributors. Eclipse, apparently (according to Sean / ClaNZer), is okay to take individual orders, at least in Europe.
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