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Magnetic Resonance Machine

07/21/2016 11:08 AM

This thing is supposed to be a Magnetic Resonance Machine. The instructions has a warning that it is not to be used in a building. Is this a copy of Tesla's earthquake machine?

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Re: Magnetic Resonance Machine

07/21/2016 1:09 PM

Electrodynamic shaker....

It might work....you just need to find the most sympathetic resonance frequency.....but no...

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07/21/2016 2:55 PM

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07/21/2016 3:03 PM

You could make a helluva loud speaker out of it by bolting a metal wash tub on the top.
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07/21/2016 3:55 PM

Groan! Not another bathtub breaking thread!

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07/21/2016 4:02 PM

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07/21/2016 7:45 PM

Superwoofer!

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07/21/2016 9:37 PM

I'd say, let's throw some juice to it and see what USGS say's about the shake, rattle and roll

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07/22/2016 12:03 AM

Might strap that to the Lazyboy for a DIY massage chair...or give it to the wife for a birthday present...

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07/22/2016 12:18 AM

THIS is a shaker!

23 inches diameter

225 pounds effective weight

Frequency Range: 5 hertz to 2,000 hertz, fundamental resonant at 1,800 hertz
Force Rating: 36,000force-pounds sine peak
34,000force-pounds random rms
68,000 force-pounds shock peak
Force Rating (bare table): 100g vector
Velocity: 70.0 inches per second
Load Rating: Vertical – 4,000 pounds
Frequency Range: 5 hertz to 2,000 hertz
Degauss coil
Power Requirements: 460/3/60
Water Cooled field unit and armature unit
Shaker weight: Approximately 30,000 lbs
Slip Table: concrete filled uni-base, 48" x 48" hydrostatic bearing
Amplifier: state-of-the-art, air-cooled Digital Amplification system, console
mounted and designed for direct interface with the shaker,
greater then 90% efficiency.

We used these to shake satellite stuff.
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07/22/2016 3:04 AM

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07/22/2016 12:32 PM

Tesla's first building shaker was a device smaller than the one in your picture, and ran off steam. The authorities made him shut it off after a general panic was created.

The magnetic one, I am not read up on, but conceivably you could shake a hopper of grain or dirt, or some other powder material that does not want to flow with this.

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07/22/2016 6:11 PM

It seems this was just a tall tale...

"The oscillator / "earthquake machine" was explored in 2006 in Episode 60 – "Earthquake Machine". The Mythbusters made a device powered by electricity rather than steam. It produced vibrations that could be felt hundreds of feet away, but no earthquake shaking on the modern bridge they attached to; they judged that the claim that the device produced an earthquake to be false (i.e. a "busted myth")."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla%27s_oscillator

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07/25/2016 10:28 AM

Maybe so, but maybe, just maybe Tesla had his steam powered unit connected to a skyscraper that was mostly just the beams with no skin, and apparently it did cause a lot of shaking.

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