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Stan’s Legacy The Stanley Meyer Archive

But Look at What You've Learned

He would not give you the answer. He would give you a worse answer, on purpose, and let you spend two years finding the real one. Then he would ask what you had learned.

The archive's own copy, 16 September 2026 46 MB

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What was shown

Max Raymond Miller, 1972–2025

Iron worker at Fox Steel in Lancaster, Ohio. Made metal artwork across the state and signed it Iron Dragon — which is where irondmax comes from. Called his research Project Icarus.

He held a Stanley Meyer conference most years, organised and paid for alone, and gave the material away at the end of each one. He got Don Gabel to demonstrate an 8XA in 2014, and Stan's sister and niece to speak. He photographed Meyer's own VIC at the estate — the photographs this archive reads winding colours from. He rebuilt the water-fuel buggy from the same Volkswagen engine. He recovered Herman Anderson's water car from a field, and one of Meyer's injectors, and Meyer's own oscilloscope, which he gave away.

What he measured

On 9 March 2014, at 03:17 and again at 06:23, he photographed his own screen. A Tektronix with four isolated channels, running on batteries — the instrument that lets you measure a floating cell without earthing it. On both shots the high-voltage output never returns to ground: 180 V of 832, and 92 V of 380.

Meyer's chapter 8-6 makes exactly that a design rule, and offers one third of peak as an example. Max measured about a quarter, twice, before dawn, eleven years before this archive went looking for the chapter. He never named it. He posted it.

The conference that started this archive

In 2015 a museum in Lancaster, Ohio let him put on a conference. Chris Bake walked in with a Tesla coil, lit bulbs out of the air, and destroyed the memory cards of everyone filming. Ethan was there too. The archive holds nothing from that day — no photograph, no video, no post. If you were in that room and your camera survived, we would like to hear from you.

His words

Everything Max says in this film is verbatim, from a recording or from something he typed. The nineteen sayings rescued from the StanBot database are published beside it. The eulogy quoted at the end is Chris Bake's, given at the Frank E. Smith Funeral Home on 7 November 2025.