On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 16:24:59 -0700, "Lobby Dosser"
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"Toby Sleigh" 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.

All hard drives, the head arm solenoid uses them. My shed's full of
magnets from HDDs. For example I use them to store sash clamps out of the
way on the ceiling. I've used one from a larger mainframe disk drive to
fish 37lb sash weights from a skip, you've just got to make sure it
doesn't touch the side of the skip.

Sounds like trying to get a prize out of one of those crane machines! )

It was from a speaker, not a harddrive, but I used a big magnet to try
to fish my keys that were ten feet down a drain pipe in front of the
Union railroad station in Baltimore. I ended up with a 2 foot piece
of rebar, but no keys. (I carried two sets of keys in those days
so getting home was easy.) It was a ceramic pipe I think.