The following video is a 9 minute virtual tour of my cleaned up studio. Follow along and lets have some fun.

Back to the HoJo all magnet Motor. I’ve taken it apart, reconfigured the magnets from 19 to 18 and put it back together. It still doesn’t work, but it doesn’t work so much better. Before it wouldn’t go 3 magnets before it stopped itself. Now it spins 8 or 10 magnets, almost half of the 360 degrees. I do believe if I remove one more to 17 magnets I may get the full 360 degree action I’m looking for.

The problem with reducing the magnets is I’ve drilled so many holes in this thing now I’m going to have to build a whole new stator so I can drill the new configuration of 17.

Here you see it about half way reassembled.

After John Peter’s death three years ago, I inherited his 9 workbooks filled with thousands of jewelry designs and I’ve been going through, picking out the best ones, cleaning them up, cropping them and putting them in formatted pages. This is one of 30 pages I have completed.

Later today, I’m going to dismantle the magnet motor and reduce the number of magnets in the stator by one.

Last summer I built this woodstove for Barbara’s temple. She is up there now staring into the fire and staying warm in this storm.