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Default A day with a Chinese engineer

On Feb 25, 8:19*pm, Wes wrote:
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After a while working on another project I realized what was going on. *I have a bowl with
ramps heading up hill in a spiral. *On the bottom there is a plate that an electro magnet
that is grabbing and releasing every 1/60 or 1/120 of a second. *The leaf springs are
ground to bring the bowl to resonance at the period of the magnet. *The leaf springs are
inclined so that when the bowl is drawn to the magnet, the bowl rotates counterclockwise
and goes down, falling from under the fasterners. when the magnet is de-energised the bowl
rises, contacts fasteners and moves them ahead as the bowl rotates clockwise.
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Wes


The first one I saw fed then-new GM HEI modules into a test station.
It was driven by a motor with an off-center counterweight, so the
circular oscillation of the bowl was more evident. You can jump a coin
uphill on your hand with the same circular motion.

jsw