Nikola Tesla's 'Nearly Frictionless' Bearings - Part 1

Now that the passive magnetic bearings are tuned a little I thought it would be good to show live what "nearly frictionless" looks like.

Using an aluminium / bronze alloy Kennedy 24mm spanner and Snap-On flat blade screwdriver to tune the bearings so that the weight of the rotor is supported by the passive magnetic bearings.

The next step will be making the rotor completely contact free. Which I think is possible with some modifications.

Interesting how using the rotor in this position it almost eliminates the vibration of the dynamic imbalance.

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[supercritical]

Excellent work Paul. you're my favourite mechanical engineer genius

[Unseenunspoken]

Thank you Paul for all the hard work that you do.

[TravisTellsTruths]

It should be run vertical to reach a balance and cancel out gravitational forces that will always try to unbalance it. Just my thoughts. Amazing.

[donaldbest]

This with a tesla turbine, and. A wheel with 200 tungsten pins, and Tesla’s one wire, open circuit is doable.

[sarchlalaith]

Do you think by inducing magnetic flux you can amplify that magnetic field such that the bearing can support great weight?

[donaldbest]

Dang, do you sell these, customized? I would be interested. I need 80k RPM.

[SamHocking]

Great progress. Is the purpose of this solid billet rotor simply for testing the magnetic bearings or is it enough surface area without swapping it for the separated discs?

[ItsGrantM]

This is cool, but what practical use could this have? Where is there a need for frictionless bearings?

[BHARGAV_GAJJAR]

Is this prototype spinning for 5 hours ?

[aquarianriddle]

Field generation may be different on z axis due to earth's geomagnetic field and thus induce vibration. But i would emphasise that compared to your level of understanding i would be deamed far less knowledgeable.
Keep up the good work.

[joeylawell]

if people were using a cold steam turbine we could cool quantum computers qubits ive seen ice form out your exhaust and theyd be doing it for damn near free, it would take lots of time to get it that cold but whose to say what this tech will do to revolutionizing the Artificial intelligence community. People have been using pistons for hundreds of years, its a shame but What once was too expensive everyone can now have. Economic crisis maybe? More like God forbid everyone is self sufficient, the government is scared what people will do with this tech. They had to go and make a seperate piston vacuum pump piston compressor piston engine and sell us each individually. And the fuel to run them. Sham.