Remember the popular toy from the 90s, Levitron? This is a top that hangs in the air due to magnetic forces. Let's try to make such a toy ourselves from scrap materials and observe magnetic levitation.
We will need the following materials:
- Wooden board, pencil, electrical tape, plastic or brass washers, postcards, paper, plastic or cardboard.
- Thirteen neodymium disk magnets measuring 12*3 mm, brand N52; one wide ring with dimensions 20 (outer diameter) * 10 (inner diameter) mm, brand N42.
Repairing an old kettle
Over the many years of its life, the kettle lost the nut securing the handle, it seemed like nothing special, they screwed on a regular one and used it, then they bought a new one, and this one was offered to me. Although I have all sorts of teapots, I somehow liked this one. It’s potbellied and, as it turns out, it swings funny when you fill it with cold water and put it on a hot burner. He begins to swing himself. But these are details; in the video I’ll show you how he does it.
I decided to change the plastic handle. There is a choice of pieces of wood, but I couldn’t decide on the color. First from pecan wood, then from eucalyptus, then from apple tree, and settled on a handle made of boxwood. After tinting the handle with stain, the teapot looked quite decent.
The kettle is a kettle, but the nut from the handle is lost
To choose from: pear, apple, plum, persimmon and laurel
But I settled on boxwood
Collective farm. I will redo it
I redid it, added a handle to the lid and stained it slightly with stain, smeared it a little with linseed oil and beeswax so that the drops would roll off. Well, here it is, with dancing! Sometimes the lid rattles
