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Levitating magnet (elements GB related)






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Its pretty funny to set up... i'll get some cube magnets, they give better visual effect because you can see them spin better. You'll need at least a pound of bismuth to make a set of suitable discs though, the stuff is pretty dense.
 
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I had to watch that 3 times before I saw where the levitation was :)
It looks like fun!

Regards rog8811
 

Benm

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Hehe.. its very subtle indeed, but there IS a gap both under and over the stack of little magnets, and the setup is stable. I need a bigger pulling magnet at greater distance to allow a bigger gap between the plates.

Loudspeaker magnets seem good for this, but i dont have any laying around. Currently the pulling magnet is about 15 pieces of 20x2 mm neodymimium disc magnets in a stack, ordered from DX.
 




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