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RE: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Components stick to tools

2011-10-25 by Tony Smith

> I would presume there would also be *some* adhesion due to moisture and/or
> grease (such as might come out of your fingertips from time to time).
> 
> If you have any iron filings, you can always see how magnetised yr
tweezers
> actually are.


I've got a couple of these
http://www.wiltronics.com.au/catalogue/191731/science/tweezers-and-forceps
(4th down, TL1054) and some that they no longer stock.  

Stainless but has 'non-magnetic' written on them.  They don't attract
filing.  Whoever was paying $30 for them is paying too much.

All the others I have seem to be chrome plated steel.  Amusingly one set of
these has only one arm that's magnetic, with patience I can pick up a 2x5mm
LED.  I should claim to have discovered a monopole.

Tony

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