Comments on: Building a Wimshurst Machine – Part 1.

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Asciimation » Blog Archives » More on Nigel. — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:26:34 +0000

[...] looked in my junk box and found some round plastic stock left over from my Wimshurst machine project. I machined up a bearing carrier that holds a skateboard bearing in each end. The bearings are a [...]

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:50:55 +0000

A colleague of mine recently bought a commercially made wimshurst machine. Neither of us could get it to work. I tried all sorts of tweaking but to no avail. I did notice a difference between it and all the ones on the internet. The one I have has alternating metal and paper contacts as opposed to all metal foil contacts. Could this be a manufacturing error? If so how on earth could it have passed any testing. If you respond by email I could send you a jpeg to show I am not crazy.

By: amin

amin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:02:41 +0000

I made my own wimshurst mechine about 1year ago. n I’m ready to share my technichal experiences in the field with anyone who is interested!
right now I’m looking for any further theorical expanded explanation that how the system works?!?
like:
-why the two ends of sparkle bars have to be spherical?(its probably because of the formation of electric field in the medium!!??)
_why aluminium sectors on the plates have to be that shape?
-what is the relation of the angle between two neutralizer bars with the maximum length of the sparkle that the wimshurst mechine can make??
{aminwantsya[atsign]yahoo[dot]com}
thankyou

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:30:58 +0000

Funnily enough I am updating it right now!

I should be done in a few hours time. Just stopping for lunch

Simon

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:28:11 +0000

Hi,
I am very interested in building a Wimshurst Machine. To conduct my own static electricity experiments. I happened to come upon your site and found your Part 1 instructions, ( Very neat and interesting). Am planning to build one myself using your instructions. Can you tell me when you will post rest of instructions? Thank you for your time!

Warm regards,

Sam

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:14:51 +0000

Oddly enough I was working to get this completed this weekend. The machine has been working for months, it just needs me to write it all up now. I am picking up the last piece this morning and just want to make up a couple of new hubs for the neautraliser bars (in black plastic rather than white). I will write it all up in the next few days time. If you want to see it going you can look here at a little film I made of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viRWICVEHCk&feature=user

Simon

By: Shane

Shane — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:38:30 +0000

Have you been able to complete your project? You have provided a great source of info and I would like to build one for myself. Im hopeing that you would be able to spend some more time noteing what you have done in addition to what you have givin already

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:04:42 +0000

I am currently working on it. Hopefully tonight I can get the Leyden jars completed and start thinking about making the base. The crank and main pulleys will have to wait until I have access to a lathe again in a few weeks time.

By: Phil Neale

Phil Neale — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:48:59 +0000

I’m interested in this project. I own a nice commercially made wimshurst genertor and I’m fascinated by it. Have you finished it ? I’d like to make one myself.