Comments on: Uses for magnets

By: asa

asa — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:09:36 +0000

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asa — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:09:03 +0000

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By: pooface

pooface — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:29:14 +0000

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By: J

Tue, 05 May 2009 00:42:59 +0000

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By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:26:14 +0000

@justin
I bet that that’s not allowed here, too easy to sneakily change plates.
Plus people could steal them too easy, or if we all did it swap them, in seconds.
Not that I personally have a big issue.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:28:48 +0000

I used rare earth magnets to hold my US and European license plates on without visible screws.

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a351/VR6GTI/plate1.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a351/VR6GTI/plate2.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a351/VR6GTI/plate3.jpg

By: webcake

webcake — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:26:41 +0000

the slow fall through the copper tube was awesome.

By: dan

dan — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:55:17 +0000

if you swallow a small ferrite magnet, it will lodge in your small intestine and slowly dissolve, imbuing you with incredible magnetic powers.

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:10:47 +0000

Cool use is waving it around a harddisk so the uninformed people freak out.
Or sell it as a medical magic thing to the slow-minded housewives and get rich quick :P

Incidentally, I like that eddy current vid, it’s cool and also informative for people because theory is often too theoretical to be comprehended as a real thing in real life.

By: Wazzup

Wazzup — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:50:16 +0000

Magnets are cool and very useful

I tried to use a magnet from a harddisk to retrieve my keys from a rain-gutter, but damn none of my keys were made from plain old iron.

I also used these magnets to make a magnetic mountpoint for this small wireless camera which has to be moved around quite a lot.

And finally I sometimes rub a screwdriver on one of the to make it a bit magnetic to retrieve screws from the intestines of machines.

No real tricks, but still handy stuff

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:54:53 +0000

All the dell inspiron’s use magnets to detect the screen being shut. the original black berry (RIM 957) used a magnet to detect the holster.

about the traffic lights though it is off subject ill hit ever notice the broad spectrum of noise that is transmitted from the inductors. it fuzzes all the analog fm channels in my radio. Never tried AM.

and now the reason i clicked comments. get a few magnetron magnets and play with your kids. they are strong enough to attract each other through most wooden tables. put on under the table and one on top. at the same time you can teach your kid how to avoid all those smashing expereiences you have had as a kid. they also work great for holding your little-ones masterpieces on the fridge.

By: sly

sly — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:55:04 +0000

The static magnetic field moved through the inductor coil’s field can sometimes cause enough of a variance that it will trigger the light. You’ll need a rather large magnet though… not the kind they sell at hobby shops.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:30:35 +0000

eclecticos: Rubbish. A static magnetic field shouldn’t have any effect on the metal detectors near traffic lights (and gate openers etc.)

I used to have to go through a gate that didn’t detect bikes very well. Easily fixed by just laying the bike on the ground. Never had the same problem with traffic lights though.

By: Eclecticos

Eclecticos — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:27:12 +0000

Neodymium magnets are are good for triggering traffic lights, so if you have a bike or small car it could save you allot of time.