Re: Magnetization of Toroid

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Magnetization of Toroid
From: Richard Wayne Wall <rwall-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 04:45:15 -0700

You wrote:

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>I have printd out your info here.  I will perform the experiment soon 
>to check your data.
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>One important point... What is your toroid made from?  If it is 
>aluminum, it can't be magneitized!  If steel or even stainless, some 
>form of magnetization is possible.  The AC should never magnetize 
>anything.   

The toroid is made from 3" galvanized steel stove pipe elbows covered 
with bright aluminum tape.  The toroid is 10-1/2" X 3" with a flat 
steel inner plate.  There are twelve flat "fascets" on the
outer diameter of the toroid.

I now have a 10" corn bread griddle made of soft iron and it appears 
nonmagnetized with the compass.  It has a 5 " handle from one side and 
hopefully the sparks will issue from the handle.  If there is DC, it 
should be induced to exit from the handle.  Later, I may cut the handle 
off and grind it smooth.  Also, being soft iron it should be easy to 
demagnetize between experiments.  I also plan to use a flat round steel 
pizza pan.  This experiment should be much more accurate using a flux 
gate magnetometer rather than a compass.  

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>Richard Hull,TCBOR
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