"Ignoramus8051" wrote in message
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On 2009-05-17, John R. Carroll jcarroll@ubu wrote:
Lifting steel plates and bars as well as flipping them over with chains
and
a hoist.

Seems scary.
It was and I bought a lifting magnet as soon as I could aford one.

On a second thought, another use for them would be
straightening things.

We also used them to clamp work to big angle plates on our horizontal boring
mill.
You don't generally straighten things in a mold shop.

JC