Hi all!

This idea was before I had any chance to play with SMOT,
now I see it's quite useless...

Forget averything.

s.

Hi Silvije,

I would be curious to know why you concluded from your (possible) play the SMOT is useless?   
It surely has two sticky spots, one in front of its entrance and one is at its end but BOTH seems to be possible to overcome by your setup with gravity, is it not?

Gyula

My play with SMOT was not serious really. Because I dont have apropriate magnets.
I have 50 neodimium round magnets, d=10mm and they are 2,5mm thick. So I tried
to put them in line on various metal plates, to get more uniform field but i dont have real iron. Just some aluminum, tin and steel with shitty magnetical properties. Then I also tried to line them on plastik thing but field from round magnets is funny... so I could not get proper magnetic field I guess.

Sorry I lack words, my english technical vocabulary is also shitty I hope you dig what I'm saying.
That is why I could not get much results and because I was frustrated that day I have concluded that basic smot ramp cannot work. At least my setup did not. Iron ball just refused to go the way I wanted Also that strong sticky spot at the and of the ramp.. I used heavier ball but that one refused to go up the ramp

So if this was so difficult to make basic smot, it seemed imposible to use it inside wheel. Then I gave it up. We just may say that I am poor experimenter So please if we have some smot gurus here, with proper magnets... would they give it a try? I even sent a mail to JLN himself but got no reply unlike before.

Wheel still looks to me like it might work But it still needs work. Work of someone who has SMOT in a little finger. That is not me.

s.