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Magnet, strong, rare earth magnets no guarantee
ONE EXTREMELY STRONG RARE EARTH MAGNET.
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If you put this magnet on a solid, smooth hunk of iron that weighs 50 lbs., it will pick it up.
The cast iron pot you see hanging from the magnet is quite heavy and the magnet is just barely touching in one small place, because the magnet is flat and the pot round.
Besides that, cast iron does not have good magnetic qualities.
This magnet makes a good fishing magnet. We call it a fishing magnet, because you can go down to Lowe's and purchase a cable to put thru the eye in the backing plate, and also purchase the crimping hardware to make it good and secure. Makes a neat unit.
You can go fishing with this extremely powerful magnet. You may not catch a whole lot of bass, but if you drag your magnet behind your boat, you may find a gun, a knife, and no telling how many fishing lures.
Do not drill, cut or grind on the magnet.
Neodymium magnets (rare earth) are extremely strong but they are also brittle. If you let one slap down on a solid piece of metal too hard, it can break. Then you have two or more strong rare earth magnets. All with a north and south pole.
The magnet is 2" diameter, and 1/3" thick.
The backing plate weight is quite heavy.
I sometimes work on tools or equipment in the backyard, and if I drop a small part in the grass as often happens, it is almost impossible to find it, but you can drag your magnet around the area and you will invariably find your small part.
Some of the scrap yards put these magnets on their conveyors to separate the ferrous metals from the non-ferrous metals. Saves a lot of time and energy.
If you hang some of these on the front of your lawnmower, you will find most of the nails, screws, pieces of wire or other iron that has been thrown or dropped into your yard.
If you roof your house or you have someone roof your house, there will be rusty nails, and probably some shiny new ones also dropped in your yard.
When you mow, one of those nails can knock a car windshield out, or may imbed a nail into your leg or some kid's eye.
Magnets hanging on the front of your mower may solve that.
I use magnets in my shop. I put one on top of my drill press, so I can just pitch my chuck key in the general direction of the magnet and it will be there the next time I need it.
I also put some drill bits that I frequently use on this same magnet. That way they are always in sight. I do not have to go digging and hunting for a drill bit.
If I lay my chuck key on my workbench, I probably will not find it this month. Since it is always hanging on the magnet on top of my drill press, I never have to wonder where it is.
I do the same with the chuck key to my lathe. It is a fairly large chuck key, but I put a magnet on the lathe and my chuck key is always on the magnet, always handily in sight and easy reach.
I put magnets on some of the rafters and studs in my shop, and I hang special tools on them.
Many chuck keys and tools will not hang on a hook. Open end wrenches do not readily hang on a hook or a nail, but they will always hang on a magnet.
Allen wrenches are ordinarily just thrown into a box or a drawer. You have to dig to find the one you want.
Put magnets on a rafter and hang your allen wrenches onto them and your allen wrenches will always be handy and in plain sight.
Many mechanics and tool repairmen keep a magnet on their workbench to keep parts from being lost from their bench.
You can put your parts in a bowl or a bucket, but the bowl or bucket will probably get turned over and the parts will scatter.
Use a magnet and this will not happen.
Find studs in your house with a magnet.
Some, that I know down around Aransas Pass go out to the fishing piers every morning and fish around with their magnet.
They know that there are fishermen on the piers all night long, fishing, drinking beer and horse playing. Sometimes more beer drinking and horse playing than fishing.
The boys with the magnets sometimes come up with a fresh rod and reel. One that was dropped into the water the night before.
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