Posted on 04/29/2017 8:28:20 PM PDT by Yardstick
This Magnet is no Joke
I don't often write reviews, but for this.....I had to write one. The magnet was everything as described, but please realize this is not a toy. This magnet is uncontrollable within 6-12 inches of a solid metal surface. If you are looking to just buy a strong magnet to "play" around with, buy this with extreme caution. There would not be much noticeable bone left if your finger was caught between this magnet and another magnet/fridge. Again, the magnet was everything stated in the description but its strength is no joke.
Scary Strong
I'm kind of scared of this magnet. It's so strong that it will move nearby metal objects even when inside of its shipping box. The finish is very nice. The magnet is very strong.
This is a Serious Magnet
This is a serious magnet. It has made many dents on my fridge. Keep your fingers out of the way!
So Strong They're Dangerous
I bought two of these along with ten one-inch cube Rare Earth magnets because I need something darned strong for a serious hobby. I’d seen a few of the comments on YouTube and read the warnings, but they didn’t prepare me for using super magnets. I put these two together, SAFELY, which isn’t a safe thing to do. I started with a wedge of wood, two inches thick on one end, then tapers to nothing over the ten-inch length. I’d put one magnet on one side of the thick part of the wood, then slowly approached the wood with the other. It got away from me and slammed into the wood so hard I’ll never to that again unless I use some kind of machine to control the attraction. Then I slid the two magnets along the wood until they reached the zero-thickness. This became hard to do because the squeezing forces were slightly sinking the magnets into the pine wood. As I walked through my kitchen to the back door, the magnets pulled me into the refrigerator. I was holding them in front of me, but they were eighteen inches from the refrigerator! Later when I came back, I thought I was being more careful, but not careful enough. These damn things sucked a cast iron frying pan off my stove and hit so hard the magnets could have shattered (they’re known to be brittle.) FORTUNATELY, my fingers were not at ground-zero of that collision because I was still tightly holding the wooden wedge. I have no doubt these could have broken bones. I am NOT making this up! I love these things, but they are not a toy whatsoever!
Like the Product
Like the product, although the paperwork that came with it left my mind spinning. The English print was anything but English. Not very pleased with the foreign spelling!
Very Powerful
Crazy powerful
Five Stars
Very strong, think safety first when handling this magnet
Yes it's fun to play with but I'm very disappointed
Not as strong as stated. Claims 280 lbs. of pull, not even close. I do not understand why people say in reviews "it's so strong it's dangerous" or "it attracted something from 12" away" bunch of BS. It has to be about 2 or 3 inches away before it will attract things. Yes It's fun to play with but I'm very disappointed. Just want to warn others before they buy it like I did, with expectations of something great. After reading reviews I was excited, only to be let down. This is my third magnet to buy and be disappointed. No bone crushing to worry about here. Just a fun TOY.
IMPORTANT NOTE!!!!!
NEVER PUT THIS ANYWHERE NEAR ANOTHER NEODYMIUM MAGNATE!!!! I was just testing is to see its strength from a distances and I was probably 1.5 feet away and the small magnet flew out of my hand and collided with this one, luckily it only chipped the small one but it did took me a good hour trying to separate them without the proper tools but overall is a great magnet!
Four Stars
Good magnet
Five Stars
Worth the money if your into magnets. very strong
Quality as stated in the ad
Fantastic, one may want to keep it in a sock since it can really stick to things.
Very strong, be careful
Extremely strong. Be very careful with these. Make sure NO sharp metal around. I did not and knife jumped from much further then I thought possible, ouch, stupid me, I know. I hear its brittle and I'm sure it is. All neo magnets are it seems. If not please let me know which aren't. Thanks much.
Great for experiments!
I am not sure why i bought this..I didn't have a special need for it or anything, i just really wanted it. It's incredibly strong (i was able to pick up a sledge hammer with the my hand sandwiched between the two). I also would forget i'm holding it and walk near metallic things that would fly to my hand or my hand would get sucked towards doorknobs that i am opening. I experimented rolling it across the floor and rolling smaller magnets at it and the smaller magnets broke (and the super magnet chipped). So beware, it is brittle. Also don't leave it near any electronics for too long...
Recommend
Very strong magnet
Five Stars
S*** is amazing
Five Stars
I love it
unbelievable do not let kids even get close to these things...
unbelievable do not let kids even close to these things very powerful and could be considered deadly under the right circumstances
As Advertised
Impressive.
Five Stars
This thing is strong!
Awesome!
This thing is crazy! I am using it with steel ball bearings to remove dents from brass instruments. Works well, could be dangerous if you are not careful. Wouldn't want to get my finger between this and some steel!
Kinda strong...meh
It's strong, yes, but I was expecting more for this price-point. Looks like you gotta go to McMaster or somewhere else more specialized to get a truly beefy magnet.
2 thumbs up !!
Awesome ! be careful....it's serious....don't recommend for anyone under 21.....it's legit....!!!
Five Stars
Very strong. BE CAREFUL!
Five Stars
Dimensions are accurate and this magnet is incredibly strong. Wouldn't want two of these coming together near an extremity.
It came near my 2" x 1" Super Strong Neodymium Disc Magnet and they
very powerful. It came near my 2" x 1" Super Strong Neodymium Disc Magnet and they became one
Muy bueno
Muy bueno
Buy several small magnets rather than one large. They are, indeed, not toys once they get to a certain size.
For a fun little trick place a RE magnet in a copper pipe and let it go. Slide it down a piece of copper. I forget the name of the effect but it’s kind of fun to experiment.
Sadly, because of environazi US policies China owns 90% of the world’s supply of RE materials. This destroyed my business about 10 years ago. I had a very successful business manufacturing a product that used tungsten and RE magnets. When the tsunami hit China clamped down the supplies and my raw materials went up 10x overnight.
a lot more people are going to get hurt by them
I bought a bunch of neodymium magnets years ago. I don’t “play” with the strongest ones anymore. Like you said, they are kind of scary and are just too much to handle. You can really hurt yourself if you’re not careful.
Now, the weaker ones, you can play with all day long. But if you buy some of them, try not to let them slam together. They are plated with a shiny nickel plating that easily chips off. Underneath the nickel plating is an ugly dark gray metallic core that easily crumbles and flakes away with repeated handling.
Nowadays, I mostly use some of the weaker ones as super strong refrigerator magnets. The very strongest ones that I actually purchased are safely tucked away in their original boxes until I figure out what to do with them - which will be NEVER. And I didn’t even try to buy the top-of-the-line monster strong ones. They had strict conditions on who they would sell them to. Researchers mostly. I didn’t understand it at the time, but I surely do now... They don’t want to see anyone get hurt and I’m sure they didn’t want to deal with the liability issues.
At the same time, I bought several dozen strong magnets that had been salvaged from hard drives. They are cheap and plenty strong for the average person and, yes, they will pinch the hell out of you if you get your finger caught between them. You also don’t have to worry about stuff flaking off them with normal use.
The norks are how China sells it’s missile and nuke tech to bad guys.
They have been making counterfeit American money for a long time and have gotten so good at it that the experts have a hard time telling it isn’t real. It’s literally better than what we make. It’s their way of getting back at us for who knows what.
We are officially at war with North Korea. Both sides simply agreed to a ceasefire/armistice on 27 July, 1953.
North Korea is a cold war orphan like Cuba.
That's one of the reasons that new security features have been incorporated into American currency. Some of their Benjamins could be distinguished from American currency because the printing was too crisp, details that were blurry on genuine currency could be seen under a microscope in the counterfeits. The Swiss company Spica which sells intaglio security inks for currencies worldwide, sells the U.S. Treasury black ink, and similar ink in magenta to the North Koreans, who add pigments to make it black. This frustrates the Treasury.
The Malaysian bank which was acting as a conduit for these bills, as well as Malaysian government, were warned that they would lose their access to the world banking system if they continued their relationship with the Norks.
It is frightening and sad to think what the Norks could achieve if they could turn their energies and talents to constructive pursuits.
“Another risk of these powerful magnets is that if more than one magnet is ingested, they can pinch soft tissues in the gastrointestinal tract. This has led to at least 1,700 emergency room visits and necessitated the recall of the Buckyballs line of toys, which were construction sets of small neodymium magnets.”
From wiki
You probably already have as these are used in ear bud type headsets. The advantage of these magnets is they have amazing power to weight ration so an itsy-bitsy magnet can drive an in ear speaker and produce great sound.
My college roommate used 4 wires to suspend his turntable from the ceiling. It looked really cool and had the best isolation of any method I'd ever seen! He attached the other end of the wires to a piece of wood that served as a shelf and placed the turntable on that.
LOL!
What happens to tungsten around strong magnets?
A few of them together perhaps?
I have it on my amazon wishlist.
Try magnet fishing into youtube.
Aluminum in an MRI machine
It’s great to see there are still audiophiles alive, lol. You might try some of the sheets or small pads from this company for your turntable. I’ve used these on several military projects with great results. http://www.sorbothane.com/
The ones I ordered are smallish slim disks — 1-1/2” x 1/16” which is about the size of a silver dollar but thinner. My plan is to screw a strip of thin steel bar stock to the wall for the magnets to stick to through the fabric (actually a cowhide patchwork about 1/8” thick). They arrive next week. These are small enough that I think Wile E. Coyote type incidents are unlikely but we shall see.
Don’t let your dog eat magnets.
How much does a turntable weigh?
https://www.amazon.com/PowerTRC®-Levitation-Ion-Revolution-Platform/dp/B015EPNFOS
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