"jtaylor" wrote in message
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"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
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On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:00:57 GMT, (Roy) wrote:

Been there tried to do that as well, even grinding is not what I
expected..I was looking to make a smallish 1/8 to 3/16" thick by 1/2
wide by 2" long magnet to make a super skinney magnetic aquarium
cleaner, and it has failed miserabley. I had a nice bunch of Rare
earth magnets that I ruined in my endeavors and even paid for some of
those endeavors by having a machine shop grind them.....Oh they got
the magnet gorund ok, but it became very very fragile due to the
naature of its construction, not from its thin section. I then spent
$4.20 and bought a premade magnet of proper dimensions and now I have
my skinney mag cleaner......probablay went through $100 of labor and
materials with nothing to show....

Sure you have much to show. Experience. Something very valuable.


"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you really wanted."

Good judgement comes experience and experience comes from bad judgement.