Tips, Tricks, and Tools

Here's one from an old VCR motor, not real strong and never had a use for em. One day I had a bench top covered in drill cuttings, didn't wanna put em on my screw holding magnet and get em in my hand when I cleaned it off into the screw bucket, and didn't want to brush em off in the floor to vacuum up with the rest the dirt and rust, or risk the dog getting in to it, so I just used one of those worthless magnets to "collect" it with, then tossed it all together in with the screws

Here's one from an old 5.25" floppy disk drive, real thin but large diameter, it might be rare earth, not sure, but it's pretty stout.

I screwed it onto a wood block and tried to pick up a 21lb tractor wheel weight, but it wouldn't quite grab that. It didn't have any problem with an 11lb transformer tho ; )