Re: FROM HAL - Starfish Spinner.... Reply to Henry

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Original poster: "The Krohns" <2halice@xxxxxxx>

Hi Henry... good to hear from you!

There you are folks... the voice of experience speaks.  (Read Dr.
Hankenstein's posting below.)  Henry, you and Chris got me started on
spinners and I'm having a blast.  I went out and shot more video this
evening.  It was nearly midnight... I hope my neighbors didn't mind...LOL!
Anyway, here's the video with a couple of seconds spliced in at the
beginning, so you can see what my spinner looks like.  This is a HIGH
resolution WMV, that is 18 megs in size.  I suggest playing it in full
screen mode.

http://www.halice.com/physics/4coil/spin3.wmv

Cordially, Hal in Tucson



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Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: FROM HAL - Starfish Spinner


> Original poster: "Dr.Hankenstein" <Dr.Hankenstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Dear future spinner wizards,
>
> Don't just read about it; try it!
>
> The spinner I gave Chris at the Teslathon (Arizona WWT 2007) was something
> I made nearly 35 yrs ago, and it works great. (his new style with the jet
> turbine exhaust pipes works even better, and is very interesting) All I
did
> with mine was ping the middle with a center punch and balance it. The
trick
> for low friction seems to be a very pointed needle-end for the stinger on
> top of your tesla coil. Jewels won't work because a "real jewel movement"
> is really nothing more than a really hard rock........and rocks are really
> good insulators!....thus they will burn up. Also, make it as light as
> possible: one made out of thick aluminum foil and well balanced will pick
> up enough speed that to fly off the top of the coil in very short order.
> (This happened to me with my small 811A coil that was producing only 3-4
> inch sparks at the time.) After all, your moving an electron ion
> field....not a car!
>
> Have fun!
>
> Regards,
> Dr. Hankenstein
>
>
>  > [Original Message]
>  > From: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  > To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  > Date: 2/28/2007 6:27:12 PM
>  > Subject: Re: FROM HAL - Starfish Spinner
>  >
>  > Original poster: Mike <megavolts61@xxxxxxxxx>
>  >
>  > how about a ball point pen?   think that would work?
>  >
>  >
>  > Sometimes a good jeweled needle bearing assembly can offer even less
>  > friction.  They are not too expensive and have very low
>  > friction.  They are also made in very small sizes.  Tucson Bearing
>  > may be able to order them for you.
>  >
>  > Dr. Resonance
>  >
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