Magnet master

[protege]

But the plain beige cases are so boring...(sarcasm off)

That's what cans of spray paint are for Seriously, one of the directors at camp had painted her computer case sky-blue...complete with a rainbow and clouds

[code-monkey]

The fridge magnet would not have made ay difference at all. If you have ever opened a hard drive they contain 2 amazingly strong Neodymium magnets. If a fridge magnet was powerful enough to wipe a file, the hard drives would be completely blank with the ones inside the drive.

These things are so strong that if you are not careful when removing the magnets from the HDD shell you can CRUSH the end of your fingers. It really hurts. If they are allowed to come together they it can be quite difficult to separate them by hand.

When they do get near to each other (within a couple of mm) the force between them rises exponentially. IIRC the attraction power is an inverse square. Google Gaussian gun and you'll see how powerful it is.

[trunks2k]

The fridge magnet would not have made ay difference at all. If you have ever opened a hard drive they contain 2 amazingly strong Neodymium magnets. If a fridge magnet was powerful enough to wipe a file, the hard drives would be completely blank with the ones inside the drive.

I use them as fridge magnets when I come across them. They're fun. A guy at my old job stupidly held one up to his CRT monitor and moved it around. He thought degaussing it would fix it. It didn't.

[RetailKate]

Fun story I heard a while back was that a friend of mine who worked in the local IT dept at a college got a frantic call from someone that while he was HIGH, He took super strong magnets and basically wiped them allllllll over his brand new flat screen monitor because it made it look "cool". He was now calling in to see what they could do since he heard they could, like, recover hard drives and stuff, and like, a monitor is a lot more simple than a hard drive. He thinks.. (honest quote)

[PepperElf]

One of my coworkers on my first ship did that. only it wasn't an ordinary magnet... we received a new magnetron for the radar and apparently the best place to put it was... next to the computer monitor.

I think we eventually had to borrow a hand held degaussing unit to fix the monitor.

[Erin]

We used to have these super strong magnets that my parents used for our refrigerator. They were donut shaped and were originally used to turn on pacemakers in a hospital setting.

I loved playing with them.

My dad bought his first computer (TRS-80 Model III) and freaked one day when my mom was cleaning up the basement where we kept the computer, and set the magnet down on top of a pile of 5 1/2 inch disks (or was it 5 1/4? so long ago) I dont remember what was on the disks, or if they were erased or not (probably were)

I just remember the screaming match they had when my dad found the magnet. The magnet disappeared soon after.

I miss those magnets, they were fun to play with. Especially if you took two broken ones and tried to force the broken bits back together. I dont think I ever wiped any floppies with them, but I did damage a black and white tv screen with one of them tho. (amazing that I'm old enough to have had a black and white tv that was supposed to be a black and white tv)

[TroubleShot]

The fridge magnet would not have made ay difference at all. If you have ever opened a hard drive they contain 2 amazingly strong Neodymium magnets. If a fridge magnet was powerful enough to wipe a file, the hard drives would be completely blank with the ones inside the drive.

These things are so strong that if you are not careful when removing the magnets from the HDD shell you can CRUSH the end of your fingers. It really hurts. If they are allowed to come together they it can be quite difficult to separate them by hand.

When they do get near to each other (within a couple of mm) the force between them rises exponentially. IIRC the attraction power is an inverse square. Google Gaussian gun and you'll see how powerful it is.

This man speaks the truth about those mag's on the inside. Been there, done that. I get a lot of crap drives, and take the mags out on occasion, but, you need to be very careful with them.

Generally if I get a set stuck together I just consider them one magnet from then on

And, yes, it does hurt on the fingers.

[Mikkel]

And, yes, it does hurt on the fingers.

You may like to see how much happens to fingers when they get between two really strong magnets.
Don't click the link if you are squeamish!




really










I warned you








There is blood!






http://www.magnetnerd.com/Neodymium%...20Accident.htm

[PepperElf]

well at least he still has some of the tip left

those were some pretty big magnets