RE: Contact sensors?

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

LOL (No really, I did!)

Paul G.


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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of
> Dave McLaughlin
> Sent: 20 November 2008 08:41
> To: UKHA Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Contact sensors?
>
> And never carry them around in your pockets, not least one in each!!
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> I know one engineer at an old defunct HDD manufacturer who did just
that
> and
> ended up with crushed nuts, so to speak!!
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> Dave.
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of
> Paul Gordon
> Sent: 20 November 2008 15:28
> To: UKHA Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Contact sensors?
>
>
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> Hell yeah!!!
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> I dismantled a couple of old hard disks several years ago to retrieve
> the magnets, - I still have (and use) them...
>
> They are *the strongest* magnets I have ever seen! - SWMBO absolutely
> cannot pull one off the fridge door without mechanical assistance, -
> i.e. if it's holding something to the fridge (like a fairly thick
> calendar) then she can exert enough force by getting a good handful of
> calendar & pulling on that, - but if the magnet is just stuck
there
with
> nothing under it, the only way she's able to remove it is by sliding
it
> across to the edge of the door and sliding it right off the side.
>
> Two of them will leap at each other (very vigorously!) from quite a
> distance, - probably about 50-70mm - with such force it's like
> arkwright's till - you don't want to have your fingers in between when
> they snap together! When 2 are stuck together, even I can't easily pry
> them apart & usually have to slide them apart sideways.
>
> I use them for holding thick or heavy things to the fridge that no
other
> "proper" fridge magnet would stand a chance of coping with.
>
> Paul G.
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