medical use for a tool magnet........

Now for the rest of the story - The way it was explained to me, one of the REAL dangers is your eye "leaking"...and if you loose about any the fluid in your eye due to something piercing ALL the "eye walls" yer eyeball will "de-flate" - and then yer SOL! And the fluid in your eye doesn't "grow back". If it wasn't REAL minor you might want to get it checked! Take care and good luck!

Of course it's a CYA liability thing to have you go to the eye doc first.

It was a rare earth magnet I used to get the fleck of steel out of my eye. Like you, I also found out that it isn't a good idea to bring two of those magnets too close together with part of a finger still between them. The other thing about them is that although they're surprisingly powerful, they're not mechanically strong themselves. One of mine shattered from letting two of them slam together.

Have you discovered anything useful to do with them? I haven't, now that I've learned that removing steel from eyeballs is a risky deal.

All the best, Stan

Believe this? I have 4 MRI magnets stuck on to my front bumper of my Ford van. I have increased my fuel mileage by 50% whenever I get close to an 18wheeler when goi'n down I81 to Florida.

I have done it and I did know (or at least had a pretty good guess which turned out to be correct) what the message was about. Here's something I'll bet you didn't know, though. At a shop safety meeting a few months ago, when I mentioned that I had used a magnet to remove a steel splinter from my eye I was told that it was a dangerous thing to do. If the splinter goes in at an angle, the magnet won't necessarily pull it out end first. Be that as it may, it immediately felt a whole lot better to have that metal out of my eye and there were no further problems. I'd probably do the same thing again.

All the best, Stan