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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: Ultimate Turntable
Post Subject: Tesla?! OK, I’m in a good company! :-)Posted by Romy the Cat on: 3/17/2008
Actually I was more thinking about skin friction drag. Did you throw the stones to slide off the water? All that is necessary is speed of rotation of this thing…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_friction
In fact if this thing reaches own cruse high-speed rotation then the vertical bearing might be even dropped as it would hold itself strictly vertically under the principles of angular momentum. It is similar to the old sea navigation systems that maintained orientation in gimbals…
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