A simple homopolar motor

A motor with only a battery, wire, and magnets.

Step 1 What to get...

The things that are needed:

C or D cell battery(almost any store has it)
26-20 guage solid wire(from almost any hardware store)
Magnets-really strong kind(from ORVAC or any store like that)
Compass-To find north of magnets(from...)

Comments

[popscott3]

I really think you better put some pictures.

[sageserver]

sry about the pictures, account got stolen, and pictures deleted...

[silversands]

Dude, where are the pics???

[lupinesoul]

There's a disturbing lack of pictures...

[shortylonglegs]

When I did this I just got the magnets from those stacking magnet toys. Soaked them in acetone for a while and they fell out. Works great.

[jugglingmaniac]

oh ya... just to say that im still 13 and im not a middle age man that's a mamas boy or that i like watching movies that are under pg-13 movies.

[jugglingmaniac]

Ya i was watchen that when i was makeing it. Thats why the pictures are dark becuase my mom sleeps through movies sometimes and if i add flash or put on more lights and then my mom will say go to sleep. There was nothing better that was on to.lol

[ledzeppie]

i seem to have detected a little Harry Potter and the Philosiphers Stone lol

[jugglingmaniac]

I got those magnets in ORVAC. they have lots of magnets but only three kind of supermagnets. I got the long magnet from MAGNETEX. i used the long magnet and the minimagnet just to hold the wire in place. I recently tried to use thicker wire but the wire just stuck to the magnets. There like $5.00 for 6 big one in the picture. $5.00 for 12 minimagnets in the picture at the top. Im trying to make a H-bomb after this. Ill try to post it the fastest i can. P.S. like a month or too.

[carbon]

So I'm thinking that this requires magnets that aren't coated in plastic... Darn! All I've been buying recently are plastic coated, (I got tired of them snapping together and breaking).

[ferroucious]

I saw this here before
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They have some pretty weird shapes for it

[ferroucious]

I tried this before, I could never get mine to work because I had a cruddy little fragment of a super magnet and just kind of gave up on it