Date:         Wed, 5 Jul 2017 13:34:49 -0700
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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From:         Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject:      Re: Guess the gizmo
Comments: To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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Old shipwright gave me some scraps, wasn't from broken mallet. 

Yes, could use it for all those purposes, but isn't the primary use.

The metal cup for the magnet I got from lee valley but must be available from many places. Sized for the magnet and has countersunk hole for screw. I think they now have a notch in the side so you can get the magnet out again. Pretty well impossible to pry the magnet out of my version. Supposedly the metal cup alters the magnetic lines of flux enhancing the attraction on that side.

Alistair 

> On Jul 5, 2017, at 1:18 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Very nice. Lignum vitae scraps? You must have had a woodcarving mallet come
> apart on you. Also sticking notes, maps and such to the dash of a diesel
> vanagon! Where'd he get the magnet with the pocket on one side, or is that

> just the way it appears?
> 
> Jim
> 
>> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 3:03 PM Edward Maglott <emaglott3@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> to prop open a too loosely swinging vent window?
>> 
>> Edward   (who once made a much less attractive magnet with stick glued on

>> for this purpose.)
>> 
>>> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>> This little gadget might be too small for Felder industries to bother
>>> with. It might be even considered silly, but it works.
>>> But just having a magnet on a short handle is handy for finding screws
>> etc
>>> dropped in the gravel or dirt.
>>> 
>>> Most every van owner could use this, not saying many will, but they could
>>> :-)
>>> 
>>> https://shufti.blog/2017/07/05/vanagon-whats-this-gizmo-used-for/
>>> 
>>> Alistair
>>