Leedskalnin "Perpetual Motion Holder" ? (PMH) Bond Effect

[Bo Atkinson]

Compiled by Sterling D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News
February 11, 2013

For some of you, this may be old news, but this is the first that I have encountered this.
Check out this 21-second video by my NEST associate, James Rodney (most of you know him by the cool 5 kW E-Cat design he came up with). In this video, he shows a crazy phenomenon. Two blocks of flat, tool steel with a small channel between them, just large enough to run an 18-gauge, insulated wire through, become bonded to each other when a current from a car battery is very briefly (fraction of a second) run through the wire. The bond doesn't seem to be magnetic, as the bonded blocks don't exhibit any external magnetism, and there is barely any magnetism after the halves are sheered apart.Preface Note -- NOT EXOTIC
by Sterling D. Allan
February 12, 2013; 4:45 pm MDT [GMT-7]
Though many in the comments were saying that this is a well-known principle of physics, it wasn't until I received this explanation from a known friend of the quest for exotic energy technologies, that I finally came to see that what the critics were trying to say is true in this case.

On February 12, 2013 3:57 PM MDT, Mark Snoswell of http://ChavaScience.com wrote:
Subject: RE: Leedskalnin "trick"

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Leedskalnin_%22Perpetual_Motion_Holder%22_(PMH)_Bond_Effect

[buckminster fuller]

The way it is filmed cries for scam... So easy to switch the 2 "bonded" metal parts by 2 glued ones... The guy even has the reflex to remove what excess glue would be on the edges...

[Bo Atkinson]

The way it is filmed cries for scam... So easy to switch the 2 "bonded" metal parts by 2 glued ones... The guy even has the reflex to remove what excess glue would be on the edges...

Buck,

Thanks for the comment. Vid observations are welcome!

In wider connections of thought, it does approximate The Left Hand Rule, (the generally orthogonal relationship between magnetic polarity and electrical polarity). This extended sort of thought can relate: iron-around-copper-wire ~with~ copper-wire-around-iron, (sandwich function can approximate coil function). It is not exotic thinking, just an extended common sense. Perhaps schools today never have kids make electromagnets (using D cells and a nail). We did so in the 50's.

I love 10 minute science! So... I found two small scraps of steel, smoothed off the burrs, sanded the rusty scale off surfaces and grooved one scrap with a thin abrasive wheel... I used an enameled, heavy gauged wire which consumes less space for the small groove. After several sparking connections, (and the spark had to be 'significant' , with 12V car battery, but brief as possible)....

I got the two scraps of steel to stick together!

Q.E.D.

I have been curious about the famous man and his work. I still wonder how any of the claims made will do wonders beyond small things like this. I found some writing on line, allegedly his, but these offered little in the way of moving giant coral blocks around.

~wav

ps- my steel scraps were 1.5" X 1.5" X .36"

[Shannow]

We did a fair bit of electrical engineering in my mechanical degree, and this was never discussed. I stumbled across it on Friday.

Had a few spare minutes yesterday, and made this contraption out of a D shackle, some stock, and some wire.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b42/akashafamily/IMG_05961.jpg

The phenomenon is very very real...

The bar sticks like you would expect an electromagnet to do, but stays stuck after you remove the current (9V battery in my case).

Pull it away, and it's not magnetic anymore.

Short the wires while it's "charged", and nothing happens.

Put a piece of aluminium foil (conductor) between the bar and the horseshoe, and it works. Put a piece of paper (insulator) there and it works too.