[sdiy] Small magnets

[Scott Gravenhorst]

As a kid, I remember my dad bringing home a roll of plastic magnet material
that was easy to cut into strips or whatever with metal shears (actually, I
think heavy duty scissors was sufficient).  This is the same stuff that
flexible refrigerator magnets are made of.  It was, perhaps 3/32 of an inch
thick, but I've seen it as thin as 1/16.  What I don't know is if this
material is magnetically strong enough to work with keyboards made from reed
switches.  I can only guess that if refrigerator magnets are made from it
that it might be fairly inexpensive and widely available.  Does anyone know?
 I suppose an easy test is to just cut a refrigerator magnet into pieces and
try it.


Ian Fritz <ijfritz at earthlink.net> wrote:
>At 12:22 PM 12/11/2003, john mahoney wrote:
>>Bag of 16 Neodymium Mini Magnets, $5 from Edmund Scientific:
>>http://scientificsonline.com/product.asp?pn=3082273
>>
>>The are very small, but neo magnets are really strong. Perhaps too strong?
>>--
>>john
>
>
>That's a good price!  Too bad that material is so hard to cut.  Half of one 
>would be quite useful.
>
>   Ian
>

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