RE:levitrons

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Subject: RE:levitrons
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Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 22:53:02 -0500
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Subject:  RE:levitrons
  Date:   Sun, 4 May 97 23:55:56 UT
  From:  "William Noble" <William_B_Noble-at-msn-dot-com>
    To:  "Tesla List" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>

just a short off thread post - years ago there was a turntable (remember
vinly 
records??)made by STANTON if I remember right that suspended the
turntable on 
a pair of opposing ring magnets.  The idea was to couple less noise and
hum 
into the platter.  It was a terrible idea - the damping was horrible so
the 
slightest vertical movement of the shelf would be amplified by the 
oscillations of the platter and the record would skip.  (I know this
because I 
bought one and gave up on it).  Now an active electronic magenetic
bearing, 
now that would be slick

ok, now back to the thread.

[Bill]  snip
 . The Levitron is a 
more coloquial (Sp.?) expression that refers to having two ring 
magnets slid over a dowl such that their fields apose and the upper 
magnet will levitate in space over the bottom magnet, impresive sight 
the first few time you see it.