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« on: February 07, 2010, 03:57:38 pm »
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How big a magnet, and how/where do you attach them.  If they are epoxyed in, how do you clean the tiny stuff off.

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« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2010, 09:18:25 pm »
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I've heard of people using the rare earth magnets, small but very strong, have seen a few on eBay that are round with a hole in the center that you could tie into the back of the bucket. Just an idea, HTH.

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« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2010, 10:13:13 pm »
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We use two of those plastic tie-wraps to secure a small-diameter round speaker magnet(about 2" or 3" diameter) to the bottom of the stainless steel duck-bill scoop. It sure saves us trouble by alowing us to not have to dig and re-dig those pesky small nails and pieces of wire, etc.

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« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2010, 11:37:52 pm »
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Don't know about the rest of you, but we use magnets attached to our diggers on dry land, too---especially when we're hunting in high junk areas.

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« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2010, 04:57:17 pm »
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How big a magnet, and how/where do you attach them.  If they are epoxyed in, how do you clean the tiny stuff off.

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Put a very strong, rare earth magnet inside of a watertight plastic bottle and tie it with a nylon cord to your scoop. That keeps it near to hand, clean and dry while you use it to fish out hairpins, fishhooks, nails, paper clips and other steel and iron junk.

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« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2010, 10:38:07 am »
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Thanks to all, I am off to Google "rare earth magnets".

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« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2010, 11:29:17 am »
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Another good source of dirt cheap incredibly strong neodymium magnets are old computer hard drives.

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« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2010, 07:31:42 pm »
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I ordered a couple of these for my land digger.

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The had fast shipping and these thing are powerful, I bought a couple and it is amazing how strong they are.

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« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2010, 08:35:58 pm »
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Idaho Jones, I'll second this. The older drives have large magnets that have a steel backing that you can drill holes in for attachment. They are light weight and incregiblly strong. Only problem is they stick to everything. I kept haveing to peel it off of my digging tools.  Cool

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« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2010, 09:16:45 am »
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yep watch your fingers cause they will pinch. So strong you have to slide them apart if two stick together. I use them to clear out the black sand from my gold pans but only the plastic ones  Grin

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