Fumble fingers

[Tom Dunlap]

The last time that the knives needed changing on the chipper I showed the new guy how. My last instruction was to be careful to not drop any nuts or washers becaues they would be hard to retrieve. He dropped one but it went down the infeed, rear, side of the disc so retrieval was easy.

Later that day I came up with a solution. Yesterday I built the retriever. I stopped at an industrial surplus store, Ax Man Surplus, and bought a 35" telescoping antennae. the guy who does my computer-geek work had given me a pile of rare earth magnets from old hard drives. I took one of the magnets and epoxied it to the tip.

The chipper knives are stored in a large ammo box along with the allen wrench and open end wrenches. Now I'll have the magnet to retrieve the dropped pieces when the Fumblies strike.

Tom

 

[treeclimber165]

For people who do not want to build their own, extendable magnetic as well as 'grabber' type retrievers are available at most decent auto parts stores. Usually less than $10. I have both types as well as an extendable mirror.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

The magnets that I've seen, I have one in my toolbox, aren't long enough to get to the bottom of the doghouse. Besides, they have normal ferrous magnets. If a bolt dropped inside, my graber would have no problem lifting it. Besides, mine cost $2 and a gob of epoxy.

Have you ever played with rare earth magnets? Rare earth is to magnets as Silky is to handsaws If you don't play right with them you'll get hurt. They will take a pry bar to get them apart in the stronger ratings.

http://www.wondermagnet.com/dev/main.shtml

 

[NickfromWI]

Tom, I have a rare earth magnet that I keep next to my sewing machine to hold needles. If a needle comes within a foot of the thing, they get sucked right to the magnet! Just don't get it stuck on the 'frig. you'll never get it off!

love
nick

 

[Tom Dunlap]

One dangles from the motor on my drill press to hold the chuck key.

 

[SomethingWitty]

This was a strange thread to resurrect.


...
I like the idea of magnets as tool holders.

 

[Pelorus]

This was a strange thread to resurrect

But I feel an attraction to it

 

[rope-a-dope]

Show me your poles....

 

[Tom Dunlap]

This was a strange thread to resurrect.


...
I like the idea of magnets as tool holders.

Like handsaws

 

[Burrapeg]

A friend of mine last year bought a pair of fairly powerful supermagnets off eBay that came packaged separately. He opened both packages one after another without thinking it over first and the damn things snapped together with his finger between. It was a trip to the clinic with a painful, bloody, broken finger. The bigger ones are seriously badass.

 

[Woodwork]

Have you ever played with rare earth magnets? Rare earth is to magnets as Silky is to handsaws If you don't play right with them you'll get hurt. They will take a pry bar to get them apart in the stronger ratings.

Yep, somewhere along the line I saw a thing on the Internet where some guy bought some really crazy strong weapons-grade magnets, I forget what he was doing with them but they got too close together and grabbed each other with one or two of his fingertips in-between. Lots of blood, and I think a fingernail or two got pulled out.

Guy Loses a Chunk of His Finger In Neodymium Magnet Accident (NSFW)

What you are looking at is a hunk of finger from some poor bastard named Dirk caught between two large neodymium magnets. Good lord that is disgusting.

gizmodo.com

 

[SomethingWitty]

Y'all ever tried magnet fishing?
You drag one of those things under docks and get things that people lost.

 

[Jonny]

Y'all ever tried magnet fishing?
You drag one of those things under docks and get things that people lost.

Probably find a bunch of bikes and a couple guns under the 2 Grand Island bridges here.

Probably more guns on the Buffalo side, more knives and straight razors on the Niagara Falls side. Those Falls chicks get a wee bit stabby at times and they won’t toss a perfectly good gun in the river.

 

[Pelorus]

Christian Bernard posted a YouTube video (less than 2 minutes long) called
"Tool of the Gods" about using a little spring loaded 4 clawed little retriever.
He puts up interesting videos on sailing.