I've just dropped a whole load of screws.... has anyone invented a magnetic picker upper perhaps with a battery and a switch and a probe i can stick in a tight corner and pick up the screws with it then flick the switch and drop them off???
or just use an old speaker magnet?
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Yes. You just have. Now all you have to do is build and market it, and you'll be rich. Congratulations.
but i want a screw now!
No he won't,what about brass screws?
Duh! Brass magnet obviously. ;-)
TIm
Wait until later tonight :-) concentrate on picking-up what you've dropped.
Well I wouldn't be without my magnetic picker upper, basically just a telescopic car aerial with a magnet on the end. Have a long grabby picker upper as well for non magnetic stuff. Why don't you just buy one! £3.55 from Toolstation - with mirror!
My screwdriver from B&Q has one built under the recess for inserting the bits. It's great!
Mark.
In a polythene bag. Drag over floor until bag is covered with screws, then turn bag inside-out and remove magnet.
Child's play putty on a stick. :-)
or TL00945 (with built in ball point pen)
Plastic bag over it.
Pick up screws, pull on bag, screws off.
Thomas Prufer
and the screws are in the bag! fantastic!
[g]Plastic bag over it.
The voice coil magnets from a big old hard disk, the bigger and older the better.
Wrap it in a strong plastic bag first (Ziplocks are thicker than most, and easily sealed).
Dead microwaves are another good source of magnets.
Try the magnets inside an old hard drive .. their good for this;)...
And if you've forgotten the bag, and the gap in the magnet filled with iron filings, hot-melt will clean it up: bit of hot-melt glue on the gap, let cool, peel off. Good for cleaning files, the serrations in plier jaws etc. also as well.
Thomas Prufer
Or if you want to do it industrially...
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