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  • Tricky
    Field Supervisor

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    2,500+ Posts
    • Apr 2009
    • 2621
    #61
    Re: what's in the tech bag

    Originally posted by Synaux
    Yea neodymium magnets are the strongest magnets you can buy.
    If you want to be really cheap, you can get neodymium magnets out of hard drives (magnetic hard drives only--not solid state hard drives).
    They are very brittle once you start cutting or fileing them, ebay has thousands for pennies.

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      • Synaux
        Service Manager

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        1,000+ Posts
        • Mar 2012
        • 1224
        #62
        Re: what's in the tech bag

        Originally posted by skynet
        They are very brittle once you start cutting or fileing them, ebay has thousands for pennies.
        Yea I never tried to cut them, I scrap electronics so I have over a hundred of them from old hard drives...they can be useful for various applications (watch out then putting two together you could loose pieces of you hands if careless).

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          • CraigW
            Trusted Tech

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            250+ Posts
            • Dec 2010
            • 417
            #63
            Re: what's in the tech bag

            I tried using the HDD magnets to keep my screwdriver tips magnetized, and to my surprise it did a crappy job.

            Went back to my 4 stack of magnetron round ones from junk microwaves.

            Those neo's are wicked !!

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              • fixthecopier
                ALIEN OVERLORD

                2,500+ Posts
                • Apr 2008
                • 4714
                #64
                Re: what's in the tech bag

                Craftsman makes the best one of these I have found.


                The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking

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                  • Rpizzle
                    Technician
                    • Mar 2014
                    • 47
                    #65
                    Re: what's in the tech bag

                    i have a small snapon drill that has changed my life its great! the torque settings are perfect. model cts561clg

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                      • Iowatech
                        Not a service manager

                        2,500+ Posts
                        • Dec 2009
                        • 3930
                        #66
                        Re: what's in the tech bag

                        Originally posted by fixthecopier
                        Craftsman makes the best one of these I have found.


                        I have one of those that I got in the mid '80s. It's wrapped in a few winds of 3M electrical tape as the o-rings broke a few years ago, but it still works as well as when I first got it.

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