Re: [FT] Magnetic Bases

><< I dunno about the pen, and I am far from a physicist, but if you put
a 
>ring
>  of powerful magnets on say, an AOL coaster, all with the same pole
facing
>  upward, with a little help from some super glue, and then another
magnet 
>on
>  the ship you wanted to float, with the same pole facing downward, 
>wouldn't
>  it sit in the "trough" of the ring?	I don't have any magnets on me,
or 
>I'd
>  go home and try this tonight, but from what I know about them, that 
>should
>  work, right?  If it did, you could make all your major FT ships 
>"floaties."
>  :o)
>
>  God bless,
>  - Buddy >>
>
>
>Better get some STRONG magnets for those lead ships! They will  also be

>hell
>to keep facing straight, since they will spin nicely. Also if they tip
at 
>all
>the heavy lead on top will cause it to roll over belly up and the lead
>shielding the magnet at that point will probably drop it onto the base.
You
>might need to use a bar with three or four posts to SUSPEND the
miniature
>from, requiring more magnetic bases to balance it out

Much though I would love to do ship bases like this, I know better than
to 
try.  I'm limiting myself to the space station, which is a plastic
circle 
about a foot in diameter.  It doesn't weight all that much -- some of
the 
bigger NSL ships are probably weightier.  The shape of the station
should 
allow me to place a magnet in such a position that it won't flip over 
without a lot of help; it should, frankly, be the heaviest part of the 
model.	From the side, it's  is shaped something like your classic
flying 
saucer.  Again, there's a picture in More Thrust of the exact same
model.

The spinning would not, under the circumstances, be a problem either.  
Unless, of course, one of my players decided to see just how fast he
could 
make it spin....  *shudder*

If nothing else, I've realized that I have to keep my additions to the
top 
of the station as short and as light as possible.  No big towers!

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