"Jeff The Drunk" wrote in message
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On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:06:09 -0400, Ralph Mowery wrote:

"john hamilton" wrote in message
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Have tried using the strongest cuboard magnet I can find (In north
London u.k.), but if the wind picks up surprisingly it will just not
hold. Also

The magnet out of a hard drive is flat and very strong.

Really? What kind of hard drive has a big flat magnet inside? That defies
all logic on the principals of how a hard drive works.

Do you even know how a hard drive works ?

Have you ever opened an IDE drive and looked inside it ?

Most if not all of the IDE hard drives have a magnet in it that is about 1/2
inch wide and an inch or so long and maybe 1/8 of an inch thick. It is very
strong. Without that magent the read/write head would not move.

Look here especially near the end to see the magnet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEfA3...eature=related