• Scam Alert. Members are reminded to NOT send money to buy anything. Don't buy things remote and have it shipped - go get it yourself, pay in person, and take your equipment with you. Scammers have burned people on this forum. Urgency, secrecy, excuses, selling for friend, newish members, FUD, are RED FLAGS. A video conference call is not adequate assurance. Face to face interactions are required. Please report suspicions to the forum admins. Stay Safe - anyone can get scammed.
  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

Demagnetizer

DPittman

DPittman

Ultra Member
Years ago I bought this little gadget that I thought would be handy in the shop for magnetizing and demagnetizing screw drivers. It works ok for adding magnetizism to screw drivers but its lousy for removing it. Sometimes I want a driver to hold onto a screw and sometimes it's aggravating. I just recently saw a YouTube tip where the guy just passed the screw driver shank through the energized forks of an electric soldering iron. I just tried it and it works like a dream.
 

Attachments

  • 20200625_165415.jpg
    20200625_165415.jpg
    75 KB · Views: 0
  • 20200625_165347.jpg
    20200625_165347.jpg
    61.8 KB · Views: 0
That demagnetized it? Great tip, I hate my magnetized screw drivers. Will never buy another one again.
 
More on great tips, check these videos out. Bill



save your old micro wave motors - not the best sound but you get the idea

 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top