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using soldering iron to magnetize tool

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GU41

12-04-2005 10:55:13




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A few weeks back someone explained how to magnetize a tool using an electric soldering iron. Can someone give me the post or explain again how it is done. Thanks




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Gary Schafer

12-07-2005 16:58:30




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 Re: using soldering iron to magnetize tool in reply to GU41, 12-04-2005 10:55:13  
A soldering iron won't do it but a soldering gun will. Hold the tip of the screw driver inside the tip of the soldering element or next to the end of the core of the transformer in the gun, front or back, and turn the gun on and off with the trigger.

The sudden starting and stopping of the current will magnetize the screw driver. To demagnetize it, turn the gun on and move the screw driver to the same place you had it to magnetize it, then slowly move the screw driver away while still keeping the gun energized. Get the screw driver several inches away before turning power off to the gun. The alternating field destroys the fixed magnet.

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Gary

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GU41

12-08-2005 13:58:33




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 Re: using soldering iron to magnetize tool in reply to Gary Schafer, 12-07-2005 16:58:30  
Gary,
That was the post I was asking about and you explained it much clearer. Thanks much.



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MarkB_MI

12-05-2005 03:29:27




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 Re: using soldering iron to magnetize tool in reply to GU41, 12-04-2005 10:55:13  
Never heard of that one, but I have a handy little tool for magnetizing screwdrivers. It has two holes in it: You run the screwdriver blade in one hole to magnetize it, then run it in the other one to demagnetize it. My tool is made by Wiha, but I've seen the identical tool with the General brand at Home Depot.



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vin

12-04-2005 20:16:17




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 Re: using soldering iron to magnetize tool in reply to GU41, 12-04-2005 10:55:13  
just drag your screw driver over a magnet then hang the mag. on your tool box



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rustyj14

12-04-2005 11:19:45




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 Re: using soldering iron to magnetize tool in reply to GU41, 12-04-2005 10:55:13  
Never heard of that method, but here's how to magnetize a screw-driver, or an iron or steel rod! Take a length of insulated automotive type wire, bare each end about an inch back, wrap the insulated part of the wire around the shank of the tool, then touch each end of the wire to the + and- terminals of a car battery, momentarially. Then remove the wire, and the tool will be magnetized for a short time! This method works well for screw-drivers, when trying to fish out a dropped bolt or screw, from some inaccessible place! And, to insert the little screw or small bolt where fingers just don't seem to work!

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Dave NE IA

12-08-2005 18:40:27




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 Re: using soldering iron to magnetize tool in reply to rustyj14, 12-04-2005 11:19:45  
Rustyj14 is the way I used to do it till the neighbor blew his battery from the spark. You just can't belive how massive the explosion was. We now do the same thing only go to the starter, do not strike on the threads, just on the nut on the starter. Dave NE IA



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bcPA

12-04-2005 21:00:42




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 Re: using soldering iron to magnetize tool in reply to rustyj14, 12-04-2005 11:19:45  
For a kids schoolproject we used a 6 volt lantern battery andset up 2 different magnetized nails. One had about 8 or 10wraps of insulated wire around the nail. The other nail had twice as many wraps. We would turn the switch on for one nail at a time and leave it on for the demonstration. The nail with twice the wraps had about twice the power and was able to hold up a nut about twice as big as the nail with less wraps around it.

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