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    Quote Originally Posted by ResourcefulRecycling View Post
    I would never use a pickup bed trailer. I use nothing but professional looking equipment. This is what makes me stand out from my competitors.
    When you pay top dollar people give a $&!t less what you or your trailers look like. I do build good looking trailers that have working lights and safety chains. I keep my trailers in good repair but dents, dings and stuff like that happen. Being decent and fair with your customers goes further than any shiny new trailer can.

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    Is this for real? Has anyone tried this?



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    Its fun to chase free energy,

    That said, start reading books, plenty of them on the subject from 1900 to present

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrapette View Post
    Is this for real? Has anyone tried this?
    Of course it's not real. He's using a fan to spin the blades.

    Coils = copper, copper = non-magnetic. How is a magnetic field affecting copper to turn the fan?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantoms001 View Post
    Of course it's not real. He's using a fan to spin the blades.

    Coils = copper, copper = non-magnetic. How is a magnetic field affecting copper to turn the fan?

    Don't know - that's why I posted it! If I understood physics I'd be at NASA lol.
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    Two hard drives and a cautionary tale before New Year's -----the drunk robot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrapette View Post
    Don't know - that's why I posted it! If I understood physics I'd be at NASA.
    To make this demonstration more confusing he could have also removed the rotor which is this case is actually a stator - fixed position. The fan would still have turned after installing the hard drive magnets.

    Inside the Fan there is a circular magnet comprising of north and south poles in a continuous manner, when he installed the hard drive magnets they were arranged so that opposing corners of the fan housing were north pole while the other pair were south.

    Since north and south poles repel each other he could make the fan turn.

    Permanant magnets are fun to play with, especially since the discovery of rare earth magnets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrapette View Post
    Two hard drives and a cautionary tale before New Year's -----the drunk robot.

    Priceless.

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    Haha! Drunk robot...Someone got into my traveling cooler!


    Thanks for posting that Scrapette, and good to see you about more!

    Sirscrapalot - Off to make a drunk robot...ha.

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    Scrapette drove a robot to drink ??!!!@!#$
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    My 3 year old wanted his own shop. It's about 8x8. Made 100% from stuff found on trash nights, even down to the nails (although it took almost 3 months of collecting all of this stuff). The walls are just pallets with scrap wood to cover the gaps.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rca987 View Post
    My 3 year old wanted his own shop. It's about 8x8. Made 100% from stuff found on trash nights, even down to the nails (although it took almost 3 months of collecting all of this stuff). The walls are just pallets with scrap wood to cover the gaps.

    If you can't find your tools, you know where to look.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Otto View Post
    If you can't find your tools, you know where to look.
    Yep, either that in laying in the grass because they were used as "teenage mutant ninja turtle fighting weapons".

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    Quote Originally Posted by gustavus View Post
    To make this demonstration more confusing he could have also removed the rotor which is this case is actually a stator - fixed position. The fan would still have turned after installing the hard drive magnets.

    Inside the Fan there is a circular magnet comprising of north and south poles in a continuous manner, when he installed the hard drive magnets they were arranged so that opposing corners of the fan housing were north pole while the other pair were south.

    Since north and south poles repel each other he could make the fan turn.

    Permanant magnets are fun to play with, especially since the discovery of rare earth magnets.
    The whole video is garbage made by people with too much time. There are many others like this on youtube.

    Perpetual Motion motors are against the laws of physics.

    If this really worked, we would all be driving cars powered by magnets, and receiving our electricity from plants using this technology. With a Perpetual Motion device the biggest problem you face is friction. The fan can't stay in motion because of friction, that is why some kind of energy is needed to overcome the friction and power the device. In this video the energy from moving air is used to power the fan. If this device did work, it would be simple to add a motor to generate power. Then just get bigger magnets and motors using the same theory to power your house, all for free.

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    i can't find the original video. perpetual motion with magnets is possible with the right design. would just have to replace the magnets every 100 years or so as they wore out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by submarinepainter View Post
    Scrapette drove a robot to drink ??!!!@!#$
    you can lead a robot to vodka, but you can't make him drink!

    BTW, Sub, I downed a couple after your Daisy Dukes photo of yore!
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    Quote Originally Posted by rca987 View Post
    My 3 year old wanted his own shop. It's about 8x8. Made 100% from stuff found on trash nights, even down to the nails (although it took almost 3 months of collecting all of this stuff). The walls are just pallets with scrap wood to cover the gaps.

    That is really cool - I need to upgrade my doghouse!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantoms001 View Post
    The whole video is garbage made by people with too much time. There are many others like this on youtube.

    Perpetual Motion motors are against the laws of physics.

    If this really worked, we would all be driving cars powered by magnets, and receiving our electricity from plants using this technology. With a Perpetual Motion device the biggest problem you face is friction. The fan can't stay in motion because of friction, that is why some kind of energy is needed to overcome the friction and power the device. In this video the energy from moving air is used to power the fan. If this device did work, it would be simple to add a motor to generate power. Then just get bigger magnets and motors using the same theory to power your house, all for free.

    I'm too ignorant about this to reply about the feasibility of magnet perpetual motion.

    But I would like to say that just because a product or technology isn't widely used does not mean that it doesn't work - just look at solar, wind and hydroelectric power production for example. They all produce electricity that is essentially free after the needed hardware is obtained, but for a variety of reasons these are not as widely employed as they could be.

    The same thing could be true of "magnet power" for all I know.

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    lol I figure noone would evah speak of that .....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrapette View Post
    That is really cool - I need to upgrade my doghouse!
    Funny thing is, there used to be a dog house where this sits...Albeit a bit smaller, but still. It was demolished before the constructions of this.

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