I've been given a strong magnet for Christmas - apparently purchased from a chandlery and aimed at people who need to recover metal objects weighing up to 60Kg from the bottom of the sea.
Since I'm unlikely ever to need to use it for that purpose, I'd be interested in any suggestions for alternative uses to which it might be put.
TIA!
recovering dropped keys from drains
conceal it under the floorboards at the front door and find out if your visitors have steel jewellery in sensitive places
if you know anyone who still has a CRT television, take the magnet the other side of the wall and wave it about
use it as a base for a really large ball-bearing sculture
Owain
In message , Roger Mills wrote
Store it next to the incoming water pipe and you will never have trouble with limescale again :)
Fridge magnet.
Use it to magnetise all of your screwdrivers.
You could attach it to the wall in your garage, and hang your tools from it.
Place it in your pocket when visiting an amusement arcade, thus ensuring a worthwhile return on the 'coin cascade' type con machines.:-)
Fix it to the front of your car. Then drive close behind a bus and you'll be able to turn your engine off and save petrol.
Bill
Wiping old cassette tapes for passing onto talking newspapers with no fear of any incriminating evidence remaining?
Find someone with a well who has lost something magnetic Suggest to someone that it cures some ailment and flog it to them. Brian
The thing that worries me is who on earth would buy such a thing for someone with no use for it. Also if its really that powerful how the heck do they get the marine compass to still work with it on board?
Brian
Re-wrap and give to /your/ least favourite relative/friend next Christmas.
Or putting on your cars fuel line or boiler gas pipe and you use half as much fuel. Yep.
Was it given to you with any specific function in mind? Or just as a gimmicky present for 'the man who has everything'?
How big is it, out of interest?
David
Start a service that offers to speed up people's computers by treating their hard disk drives with it (to realign the electromagnetic fields, making the data flow smoother and faster).
Daniele
Wiping crashed hard drives
or fix it in front of the nearside front wheel 1/2" above the road and pick up nails etc before they cause a puncture.
Had a laugh once in the days when I lived on a boat, a mate purchased one attached a line and hurled into the oggin but upon retrieving found the darn thing had a come apart . The chandler was close so went with the line and attachment eye and discussed getting money back or replacement. Bit of a smarmy git,said he wouldn't unless we had more bits implying we had just removed the eye and were trying it on. Well I had already owned one and more in hope than expectation hurled in the same area several times, amazingly we did retrieve one side pole and the magnet of my mates still with the bastards price label attached . It was covered with black ooze that stuck like grease and stunk. And that was exactly how it was laid on his shiny glass and stainless display counter driving some compasses crazy inside while we discussed our refund. It was a short discussion in our favour.
G.Harman
Visit your local marina and offer to pick up car keys etc that folk drop in the canal.
For the sake of one more pointless sugestion... build a huge moving iron subwoofer.
NT
K3wl! And I think you might just find a suitable design by watching the first few scenes of 'Back to the Future.'
Nick
Dig a hole in the road, put the magnet in the hole mounted on a crank connected to a generator. Use that to charge an electric car for free.
I think there was one of those under my seat when I wached "Earthquake" (1974)
LOL!
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