I’d call BS on that, though my brother might believe it - after taking ages to peel two of them off the fridge, I told him to be careful 'cause they could pinch… right before he put them on his ear. :smack: On the one hand he’s my brother, but on the other hand he’s my brother, so I got them off for him with two butter knives.
I’m split on that one, I had two fingers whacked pretty good by a couple of 2.5" diameter x 1" thick N54 magnets. Fingers hurt for almost a week and had bruised finger nails for even longer. All I can say is I’m glad two fingers were in there; if only one got caught it probably would have been broken.
There are magnets big enough to break bones, if you’re unfortunate enough to get your fingers caught between one and a piece of metal (or another magnet). I vendor’s site I saw some time ago said that they ship their larger magnets in the center of a wooden box - one at a time. They advise caution when transporting them by hand outside of that box, because if you get them anywhere near another piece of magnetic material, you may not be able to hold them back, leading to a violent collision that can crush your hand or generate the aforementioned shrapnel.
I’m split on it, too, which is why I relate it as a “scare 'em straight” story, rather than a “this totes happened” story. I could imagine doctors, when seeing such a situation, given the awkward placement, time constraints, and strength of the magnets, to rationally decide that a small incision would be less damaging than other methods they could use to separate the magnets.
I assume that by “they”, you mean doctors and such? The phrasing makes it sound like the magnets themselves somehow saved her life (from what, I don’t know).
If the little girl was a cow, they might.
Doctors/surgeons, yes. I have a bunch of the neodymium magnets from when I was working on those sculptures, and they are well hidden from my kids.
Well, they raised this zombie thread from the dead.
Wow. Wow. That is one dangerous magnet. Playing with that is like playing with a car balancing on one jack. I think it’d be fun, but I’d do a whole lot of planning, and make some special tools like giant wooden pliers so I could probably protect the magnet (it’s over $400 after all), but most definitely protect me.
I have a refrigerator (dirt cheap - the delivery cost more than the refer) with a sprung door - it will shut, but needs to be pushed the last 2" or so - would a strip of this 1/4" x 1/2" x ?" applied around the seal pull the door the last 2"?
It looks like somebody allowed kids to swing on the door handle - it first bulged, then broke entirely (ebay to the rescue on that). I have no idea how to align a refer door, even if I had the strength.
Putting a magnet of a door, I can handle…
As I understand it these extra strong magnets can be mail ordered.
How does that work 
Wouldn’t the parcel stick to any metal surface it gets near, including other parcels and those metal chutes they have in the sorting office and even to the inside of the delivery van :eek:
In close proximity, the strength of the magnets diminishes by a factor of 4 when you double the distance away from it so wrapped and boxed properly they are quite safe to ship. Further away, the strength diminishes by a factor of 8 when you double the distance.
They are packaged very, very carefully:
“minimize the external magnetic field” is kind of misleading. The packaging materials they use don’t have any special magnet-cancelling properties; it’s just that they carefully arrange things so that the magnet is securely positioned in the center of the box, assuring that nothing can come within several inches of it. The really strong magnets are shipped in a wooden box instead of cardboard, making it even harder for foreign objects to penetrate into the interior.
Couldn’t find them - link to the direct page? Thanks.
delivery companies follow close to other vehicles when delivering magnets for the motive assist.
extrapolated from a scene in a Laurel and Hardy short
Since the time of that post the product was banned for sale in the US. Bunky Balls and Magnet Balls where sets of spherical rare earth magnets. 216 in a standard set.
Kids eat them. Thus we can’t have nice things.
That’s your site?
Some of those sculptures are very cool.
Thanks. I had fun doing them. Too bad now I moved and have no room in my garage for the welding/cleaning/polishing equipment to do this. And no time either…
Back when floppy disks were a thing I had an already-damaged one labeled “CRITICAL BACKUPS” prominently stuck to the side of a filing cabinet with a magnet just to see who would notice and do a double take.
or have your 5 1/4 disk thumbtacked to a bulletin board.