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Brian C. Kennedy Email kennedybc@comcast.net
> From: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
> Reply-To: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:45:08 -0500 (EST)
> To: shop-talk@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Getting metal filings off welding magnets
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>
> Howdy,
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> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Brian C. Kennedy wrote:
>> Any ferrous metal with a sharp point will concentrate the magnetic field
>> and pluck them off. I used to use a scribe for this purpose.
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> Wait.
>
> You mean I can just take a pick or whatever (doesn't have to be magnetic,
> just iron/steel) and run it around on the magnet?
>
> Really?
Yep. I haven't done this in about 40 years, but as luck would have it I have
a small magnet and a scribe in the basement and it does work.
Brian
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> Mark
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