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To: Yardstick

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.


41 posted on 04/29/2017 11:53:19 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: Organic Panic

What happens to tungsten around strong magnets?


51 posted on 04/30/2017 5:34:53 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: Organic Panic

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.


57 posted on 04/30/2017 8:41:08 AM PDT by Yardstick
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