Cheap Magnets
by Barry Carter
Created August 21, 2010
Most of the magnets, I have used to make traps with, came from broken speakers. The speaker cone or rubber surround sometimes breaks after several years of use. I see speakers like this at yard sales quite often. One can also find old speakers at the Salvation Army or other used-stuff stores.
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When you find a damaged speaker, you can remove the donut shaped magnet from the speaker frame using a hammer and chisel. The metal plates on the back and front of the donut magnet can be removed by heating it slightly and driving a Stanley knife blade between the plate and the magnet. Be careful not to heat it too much.
I have also collected lots of magnets from broken hard drives. These are very strong magnets.
Most magnets are quite brittle and will break if you allow them to snap together. I try to slide them together from the side. Once they are stuck together they are very hard to separate. Following is a link to a picture with hard drive magnets on the left and speaker magnets on the right:
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The magnet fragments in the lower left of this picture were broken when I let a couple of the hard drive magnets snap together. The largest speaker magnet on the right is about four inches across.
It is also important to be very careful when storing your magnets that you keep them away from electronic equipment and credit cards. They can totally disable either. I store most of my magnets in three places; on the front of a file cabinet:
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on a steel sheet attached to my wall (for this very purpose):
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and under my wood stove:
