Good tool magnetizer?

[ZOOTECH]

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The classic magnetizer is great IF you can fit it into the screwdriver slot of your tool pallet. In other words, every time you insert/remove your driver it re-magnetizes.

Keep this in a zip lock bag to keep all the other "debris" from getting in the way.

[NeoMatrix]

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The classic magnetizer is great IF you can fit it into the screwdriver slot of your tool pallet. In other words, every time you insert/remove your driver it re-magnetizes.

Yourself and ZooTech have it....

I was feeling too lethargic to take a phone-pix of my own mag-tool and post it... I hate cold weather...

When it becomes dirty I clean my same mag-tool out with an air compressor.

Okay now humour the forum with the method you use to magnetise the driver ?
Leaning down over your tool case with your mag-tool and driver in hand between your legs moving your elbow back and forth, with your back to the office staff, makes for some interesting raised eyebrows and conversations from office staff...

Hint for the newbies:
Don't magnetise your screw driver in the closed isolated copier room, just incase staff walk in...

[igi]

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The classic magnetizer is great IF you can fit it into the screwdriver slot of your tool pallet. In other words, every time you insert/remove your driver it re-magnetizes.

and the swipe on the outside demagnetizes.
magic

[ZOOTECH]

Yourself and ZooTech have it....


Okay now humour the forum with the method you use to magnetise the driver ?

Hint for the newbies:
Don't magnetise your screw driver in the closed isolated copier room, just incase staff walk in...

Well, sliding it in-and-out, in-and-out is always good form. 🙈

[allan]

Really use a car battery and good wire.
You can hang your tech screwdriver upside down from anything metal enough.
Using that on a Ricoh MP6500 poses a real problem with that thing sticking everywhere!

Not for daily application but really fun to do with someone un-expectant of this stickydriver .

[subaro]

Really use a car battery and good wire.
You can hang your tech screwdriver upside down from anything metal enough.
Using that on a Ricoh MP6500 poses a real problem with that thing sticking everywhere!

Not for daily application but really fun to do with someone un-expectant of this stickydriver .

Make sure you car is out of the warranty period first. I will only do this if it permanently magnetize the driver. The best magnetizer i ever came across is from an acura blower motor. my blower motor went and replaced it and tried the driver on it. i was blown away, only a few dab and the driver is ready and steady. Have this in shop.
The one for the road, is from the hp 9000 series finisher attachment magnet lock. Its is small, light and really powerfull.

[NeoMatrix]

Well, sliding it in-and-out, in-and-out is always good form. ��

Some office women staff for a strange reason seem anxious when I slide my screwdriver in-out,in-out,in-out....

Some women staff become slightly excited when I open my toolcase... I don't know why..... true ...

[subaro]

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these i got from our electrical scrap that i believe was from adf motors or finisher motors. they are strong and magnetize well, but i use them as temporary screw holders.

[qbert69]

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these i got from our electrical scrap that i believe was from adf motors or finisher motors. they are strong and magnetize well, but i use them as temporary screw holders.

Holy Cow Yeah!....those stepper motors have SUPER STRONG magnets in them!!!

First time I took one apart was to clean developer iron steel particles out of it from a Ricoh machine!--this is the 50-60 cpm machines....when the developer units fail in the back, they dump the developer all down the backside of the feed units fouling and locking them up, thus necessitating a good cleaning and lube!....DOH!

[skynet]

Back to the tool magnetizer issue:
I have used primarily magnetized screwdrivers with replaceable bits for my entire career. I've got a few odd screwdrivers for specific purposes 18", 30", stubby, offset ... and they do not hold magnetism for any length of time. Every time I need to use one of these special purpose drivers, I have to magnetize it. =^..^=

Just get some small neodymium disc magnets and drop them in, my screwdriver sends the metal detector on my phone into the red.