On Jan 23, 7:58*pm, Old Codger wrote:
On 23/01/2012 18:57, ARWadsworth wrote: She lost her gold wedding ring today whilst decorating and it went down a
gap in the floorboards.

Her husband was at work and phoned me to retrieve it. I lifted the
floorboard and could see the ring but I could not reach it with my arm.

I said "I have just the thing in the van to get that" and she relpies "I'll
bet it's a magnet on a stick, I've seen them used before"

Did you tell her it must be gold plate? *:-)


Maybe he had one of these in the van: an eddy-current maagnet will
lift any metal.

http://www.nipponmagnetics.com/eddy-...ication-6.html

Robert