Lately, there has been an great interest in "Free Energy". Imagine never having to pay an electric bill or spend out hard earned money for gasoline for your car. We are already on the threshold of several different types of free energies which utilizes natural resources. And none of these are actually new concepts.
A good example of this would be solar power. Solar power is a viable and free power source in use today. We can already produce electrical power from a solar panel fitted with photovoltaic cells (solar cells). The beauty of solar power is that we don't have to put sunlight into the panel, the sunlight places its self into the cells. It's all around us. At least during the daylight hours.
The power obtained from the wind has pumped water to remote locations from wells and driven many different types of mechanisms for years and even today is producing electricity on wind farms all across the globe. Who can forget the image of wind mills in Holland and other parts of Europe, or the wind mills mounted on tall towers to pump well water to farms across the United States.
Then there is hydro power or the power produced from moving water. This technology has been in use for centuries to power machinery and produce electricity. As long as the water is flowing, there can be mechanical energy to create huge amounts of power. Energy can even be created from the action (motion) of sea waves.
But there is one power source that has yet to be tapped. Magnetic power! The almost magical power produced by magnets. Magnets have a force of attraction or repulsion that has mystified people since magnetism was discovered. And yet, many believe this type of energy is impossible to obtain because both the positive and negative properties of magnets are equal. Then of course many said it was impossible for man to fly a few hundred years ago. We all know how that one played out. First the lighter than air balloon was invented, and then fixed wing gliders, and then the powered flight made by Orville and Wilbur Wright at Kitty Hawk. Today, flights are made all over the world without even a second thought to the miracle of avionics and aerodynamics.
When I was an eleven year old boy, I was introduced to magnets and the strange things they could do. When I put a magnet together with the same poles facing one another I found that they repelled each other. Wow, I believed that if you could get a big enough magnet to repel against another magnet of the same size, you could launch a spaceship into space. I had a big imagination as a child. I even sent a drawing to NASA and got a nice letter back telling me to keep on inventing. They said that maybe sooner or later I'd be presenting them with a workable model of a functioning magnetic space craft. Well, that hasn't happened yet obviously, but it lets you know how long I've been thinking about this. That letter was sent just before the first Lunar landing in 1969.
Several concepts have been made by individuals around the world and even a few working models of permanent magnetic motors. One of the earlier concepts was developed by a man named Howard Johnson in the form of a rotating motor that used both the attraction and repulsion of magnets to run a wheel. I built one a couple of years back from plans available over the internet, but never could get it to run more than a minute before the fields would slow down the motor or the motor would self destruct.
One very promising design is the Perendev magnetic motor which uses three wheels with magnets set at specific points on the outer rim surround by a clam shell of sorts with magnets mounted in the opposite pole surrounding the three wheels. The result is a motor that continues to turn at high RPM's until the clam shell is moved away from the inner wheels. Mr. Perendev's concept along with may others can be found on YouTube as well as many other locations across the internet.
I started fiddling around with my own concepts and believe I have found a few that will work. Only time will tell. We just have to keep experimenting until the right combination of magnet size and configuration can be found.
The author, as you can tell, is an avid experimenter and has a love for new inventions. He is also a trained draftsman who puts his ideas to paper to share with others. You'll find these drawings at http://maginvent.com/motors/ where you can download these drawings for free and can freely discuss your own ideas.
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Sunday, February 3, 2013
New Online Drafting School
We are proud to announce a Online New Drafting School located at http://101info.org/drafting. The site is now under construction and will most probably be online by the middle of February 2013...
Courses Covered:
Courses Covered:
- Architectural Drafting
- Mechanical Shop Drawings
- Survey Drafting
Saturday, January 5, 2013
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This article is the second in a series of articles designed to make your AutoCAD drafting much faster and more productive. We got a lot of responses and good tips from our readers for the last batch of AutoCAD time savers, and have another set of them for you! HereWhat Does A Drafter Or Draftsman Do?
A drafter is someone who is trained in creating technical drawings. Their job is to take the sketches, concepts, and specifications of a professional architects, engineers, machinists, or inventors and build the necessary illustrations from which that idea can be implemented or fabricated inSunday, August 5, 2012
Drafting as a Second Job
I’m a deputy and chaplain for a local sheriff’s department. I'll probably be in this position until the day I retire, that is if I ever retire. I’m in the position God placed me in and am content with that. However, this job has never been known as a top paying vocation. Sometimes it’s hard to make ends meet with the salary I make.
But the facts are that I love the job I’m doing and finding a job you are content in is rare. I don’t want to give it up. Many of the officers feel the same as I do and take on part time positions or create their own jobs like lawn care or selling insurance, etc. Me? Well, before I put on the badge, I was an architectural designer and general drafter. As a matter of fact, I owned my own drafting service for the better part of fourteen years here in east Tennessee.
More and more people are working two jobs and those extra jobs are getting harder and harder to find. To me, it just doesn’t seem right to waste a skill that I’ve already learned. Better yet, there are enough inexpensive resources online that you could learn this skill on your own and then capitalize on it.
So after I realized it would be hard to make ends meet with just my deputy salary, I started letting others know I was taking on drafting jobs again. Shortly thereafter a few jobs started trickling in and I took on the projects that would only take a short while to complete. Mostly house plans, but I have drawn a few patent drawings and a few prints for machine shops. Many more jobs came in from around the country from the website I put online. The internet is another blessing from God. With the internet you can reach tens of thousands of prospective clients you would have otherwise never been exposed to.
The beauty of drafting is that with the advent of CAD (Computer Aided Drafting) programs, projects take little time to complete because of the control the computer gives you over the subject. What used to take hours to draw now only takes minutes or even seconds to complete.
There is enough work now that I can be picky about what I take in so that I don’t spend more than an hour or two daily so that I can still spend plenty of time with my family. I’ve even trained my wife and daughter to help me with the projects I’m working on. They love participating and helping with this little family business.
Tim Davis has created online drafting courses that will give you the skills to be a drafter in many different fields. Please go to http://maginvent.com for more details.
But the facts are that I love the job I’m doing and finding a job you are content in is rare. I don’t want to give it up. Many of the officers feel the same as I do and take on part time positions or create their own jobs like lawn care or selling insurance, etc. Me? Well, before I put on the badge, I was an architectural designer and general drafter. As a matter of fact, I owned my own drafting service for the better part of fourteen years here in east Tennessee.
More and more people are working two jobs and those extra jobs are getting harder and harder to find. To me, it just doesn’t seem right to waste a skill that I’ve already learned. Better yet, there are enough inexpensive resources online that you could learn this skill on your own and then capitalize on it.
So after I realized it would be hard to make ends meet with just my deputy salary, I started letting others know I was taking on drafting jobs again. Shortly thereafter a few jobs started trickling in and I took on the projects that would only take a short while to complete. Mostly house plans, but I have drawn a few patent drawings and a few prints for machine shops. Many more jobs came in from around the country from the website I put online. The internet is another blessing from God. With the internet you can reach tens of thousands of prospective clients you would have otherwise never been exposed to.
The beauty of drafting is that with the advent of CAD (Computer Aided Drafting) programs, projects take little time to complete because of the control the computer gives you over the subject. What used to take hours to draw now only takes minutes or even seconds to complete.
There is enough work now that I can be picky about what I take in so that I don’t spend more than an hour or two daily so that I can still spend plenty of time with my family. I’ve even trained my wife and daughter to help me with the projects I’m working on. They love participating and helping with this little family business.
Tim Davis has created online drafting courses that will give you the skills to be a drafter in many different fields. Please go to http://maginvent.com for more details.
Friday, February 17, 2012
The Need For Mechanical Drafting Training
Mechanical Drawing is an important art and craft in the today’s mechanized world. So much so that it would be difficult to over estimate its importance. Without it, civilized life as know it now would very quickly come to a standstill. In this electronic and mechanical age, it has become indispensable as part of our industrialized system. It has the position, apart from its connection with theoretical mechanics, as a necessary feature in our economic production. Indirect or made by memory production methods are no longer commercially feasible. Every important piece of machinery or fixture or begins on paper or in a CAD program, and the accuracy and completeness of what a drawing shows of a mechanism depends on the craft of mechanical drafting.
A good mechanical drawing is in itself a powerful aide in design. In addition to its main goal as an accurate depiction of the ideas of the designer, it also is a practical test of the practicality of the functions of the parts drawn. A large part of ordinary machine design, where rigidity and practicality are what you want to end up with, is produced by the showing of the drawing (object) only. No complex mechanism can be designed and produced with complete accuracy without the help of a top notch mechanical drawing.
Scale drawings, while mainly intended for producing representations of structures in readable sizes for drawing, handling and storing, are also necessary to the properly proportioned design of all objects that if drawn in their natural size, are too large or too small to be completely seen by the naked eye. This is especially true where there is little or no graphic information for mathematical calculations.
The information needed for mechanical production demands an accurate drawing, displayed and explained by understandable and uniform methods, which are common knowledge to all who deal with the subject’s construction. Collectively, these constitute an important and invaluable skill, apart from any connection with abstract science, a skill which has to be acquired by plenty of work, care and diligence. This is most readily accomplished by making it a separate study in the early stages of drafting training; and that period is most needed, also, because this kind of skill is a powerful help to the progress of every other branch of vocational training or study that is involved in this type of work.
It should also be noted that, although special aptitude to draw is always a valuable asset, it is not a substitute for the necessity of studying and practicing drafting conventions, and that it is really necessary to go through a good training course in this field.
The author, Tim Davis, has built a very complete course in Mechanical Drafting at http://draftingservice.us/m101.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Learning Drafting as a Beginner
So many who are wanting to learn drafting jump right into the advanced goodies without learning the basics. I know this because I have had to coach so many who enroll in my advanced drafting courses without the slightest clue how to perform the simplest drawing task.
To correct this, I have created a beginners course in drafting called Mechanical Drawing 101 at http://mechanicaldrawing.8m.com/index.htm.
At this site you will learn basic shapes and how they are drawn on the drafting board and the CAD program. This course is donation based. If you can donate something, please do. If not, help yourself anyway...
To correct this, I have created a beginners course in drafting called Mechanical Drawing 101 at http://mechanicaldrawing.8m.com/index.htm.
At this site you will learn basic shapes and how they are drawn on the drafting board and the CAD program. This course is donation based. If you can donate something, please do. If not, help yourself anyway...
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