Front End Engineering text plan and design

I kept seeing a picture in my mind of the inside of a rifle barrel. The rifling is those spirals cut into the metal of the barrel. The purpose of the rifling/spirals is to spin the bullet, improving it's trajectory, distance and accuracy.

One day I decided I was ready to design the Magnetic Vortex engine.

The shaft was straight, slightly tapered at both ends, for pressed on bearings. One end was splined for a yoke. The u-joints would mount on this. Drivelines could be extended or a second driveline could be fitted where the transmission and clutch assembly and housing had been or direct, for example, into a generator unit.

In front of the splines was a carrier bearing fitted into one end of a stout housing. The whole housing was a cradle. The rear housing held the bearing and the loops' guide rods, the bottom was straight, to the joint in the middle of the cradle, you have to separate it to mount the shaft and loops and of course whatever kind of mount receivers you require, to the Front End Engineering Design of the housing, which held the bearing and the loops' guide rods.

The shaft was steel and everything but the loops were steel. The shaft in front of the rear bearing and housing was drilled in a reverse double rifling/spiral and fitted with magnets positive side down. This was for going in reverse. Note; as I found out later, hang the loops before fitting magnets into shaft.

The next portion of the shaft was straight and clear, this was the place the loops "rested" in non-operating mode. Be sure to allow a generous clear area in front and rear of the loops.

In front of this clear area of the shaft was drilled in a forward double rifling/spiral fitted with magnets, positive side down, approximately 4 times the rifling/spirals, 4 times lengthwise the reverse rifling/spiral.

In front of this rifling/spiral area is the front carrier bearing and front housing. In front of this the shaft is cut with key ways for pulleys, for example, alternator, powersteering, etc.

Be careful to balance the yoke weight with the pulley weights to reduce vibrations. The strength of the magnets, the thickness of the shaft, the strength of the housing obviously vary depending on application. Your blender would not require reverse, use your heads people.

Magnets can be made. Use square or round keystock. Cut to lengths that you want the magnets to be. Touch positive to one end and negative to the other end. Just a quick zap. Be careful!

It will work. Not super long life, but it will work and cheaper than other magnets. Use the better quality magnets for moving equipment/vehicles. Magnets depending on quality will last for hundreds, or more, of years.

The loops were made of aluminum, drilled to receive magnets positive side down, towards the shaft, and drilled again to allow allen screws to act as keepers for each magnet.

I used 5 loops just wide enough to securely hold one magnet and keeper. These magnets fitted in all around the inside of the loop/circle. The next loop/circle had the magnets slightly offset from the first loop and so on, like the rifling/spiral inside of a rifle barrel.

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