hard drive magnets

[Huge]

What an excellent idea, thank you. Consider it gratefully stolen.

[Huge]

Quite so.

The "best" example of that being when I dropped one of the bolts holding the cesspit pump together. Into the cesspit.

I went and bought another. God bless Anglian Fastenings.

[Bob Eager]

I use a nice little strong magnet on the end of a telescopic rod (rather like a radio aerial). Standard item from some tool shops, and pretty cheap.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Yup. Thats what I lost..took a scrap £3 model motor to recover it..

[Robert Laws]

i've not seen it but I have read that you can do nice tricks when you move them near a piece of copper (or oethr conductor). Drop such a magnet down inside a copper tube, or beside a copper sheet, and it falls very slowly because the eddy currents it induces as it falls.

Robert

[Sylvain VAN DER WALDE]

I also have recently stripped a faulty HD Drive (did you keep the nice screws?). I used one to magnetize one of my posidrive screwdrivers. I can't think of any other uses, at the moment.

Sylvain.

[Lobster]

Not forgetting to attach a sticker to the side and write "anti-limescale device" on it, or it'll never work...

David

[Andrew Gabriel]

They got used as stocking fillers a couple of Christmas's ago (CPC had them on offer at 80p each, or some such;-)

[Bob Eager]

That's right. My 10 year old got one, along with various other tools..

[Rod]

So where would you get gadolinium from? Couldn't see any at Screwfix.

Would they be strong enough to produce magnetic phosphenes?

[Chris Hodges]

You get curved (parenthesis shaped I suppose) rare earth (neodymium iron boron) magnets in the voice coil. Handy for stringing cables round the lab in work as we've got steel framed partition walls.

just used a pair of much smaller ones to stop the letterbox banging in the wind - a decent hold shut even with a 2mm gap in between them.

Chris

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Lobster saying something like:

No, to make sure it works you must post the twenty quid to me and I'll send you a leaflet telling you it works.

That way you get the full buying experience.