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Offline Athame57

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Magnetic solution..
« on: September 12, 2021, 03:34:58 PM »
Today I was removing tappets to inspect their contact surfaces and dropped one down the inspection hole  ::) panic... thoughts of top end rebuild going through my head.  :o I could just see it and wondered how to retrieve it without losing it again. I got a strong magnet I have indoors but the force wasn't reaching. I then took a long screw driver and spent half an hour making that magnetic.... I managed to fish it out that way.  ;D
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Re: Magnetic solution..
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2021, 05:32:23 PM »
Well done, necessity is the mother of invention!
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« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2021, 08:42:29 PM »
I feel your panic  - I once "lost" a distributor drive spindle into the engine/gearbox on an A series Mini whilst I was rebuilding it - took me and my Dad almost two hours to retrieve it using some old medical forceps, lengths of welding wire with a loop plus a very weak magnet. The engine was back in the car when it happened - the bolt that you screw into the drive shaft to lower it into position came unscrewed as I was trying to get the position right for the timing.
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Re: Magnetic solution..
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2021, 10:08:21 AM »
I have several "old school" items from my maintenance days, among them are several  different sized telescopic handled magnets and a couple of telescopic mini mirrors, industrial equipment has even bigger spaces to loose things in.
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Re: Magnetic solution..
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2021, 10:45:49 AM »
I have several "old school" items from my maintenance days, among them are several  different sized telescopic handled magnets and a couple of telescopic mini mirrors, industrial equipment has even bigger spaces to loose things in.
I was wondering earlier...... has the dentist got something like this in case that drill bit ends up down yah throat?  :o
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Re: Magnetic solution..
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2021, 11:22:05 AM »
I have several "old school" items from my maintenance days, among them are several  different sized telescopic handled magnets and a couple of telescopic mini mirrors, industrial equipment has even bigger spaces to loose things in.
I was wondering earlier...... has the dentist got something like this in case that drill bit ends up down yah throat?  :o

No need - humans have an automatic ejection system! 💩
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Re: Magnetic solution..
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2021, 06:06:24 PM »
I have several "old school" items from my maintenance days, among them are several  different sized telescopic handled magnets and a couple of telescopic mini mirrors, industrial equipment has even bigger spaces to loose things in.
I was wondering earlier...... has the dentist got something like this in case that drill bit ends up down yah throat?  :o

No need - humans have an automatic ejection system! 💩

Ah the reflex wretching mode.
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Re: Magnetic solution..
« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2021, 07:12:47 PM »
No comment from our very own nurse?
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Re: Magnetic solution..
« Reply #8 on: September 13, 2021, 08:12:02 PM »
No comment from our very own nurse?
The human body is bloody clever. If something isn't meant to be in there, it'll find its way out, one way or another 😊😊😊
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Re: Magnetic solution..
« Reply #9 on: September 13, 2021, 10:12:58 PM »
The human body is bloody clever. If something isn't meant to be in there, it'll find its way out, one way or another 😊😊😊
Well....I have a strong neighbour and I thought 'if this doesn't work we'll hold the bike upside down and shake it!'  ;D
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Re: Magnetic solution..
« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2021, 06:27:12 PM »
I've got a gadget that magnetises screwdrivers.  Screws stay on the end, not the stainless ones though.
Where's that 10mm socket got to?

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Re: Magnetic solution..
« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2021, 11:51:32 PM »
Magnet on a telescopic stick is handy but invariably sticks to some other bigger lump of metal and fails to pick up the bolt or nut you want it to. I bought one of those inspection cameras on a flexible shaft from lidl that includes a magnet, various hooks and grabs for retrieving dropped nuts and bolts etc from tight spaces, haven't had to use it yet though, it was handy for diagnosing dead pistons on 2t garden machines though, camera in though the plug hole,  get a decent look at the bore and piston crown, nice to confirm the issue in very little time.
Lidl was also the source of a gadget I have to magnetise and de magnetise screwdrivers, probably the more useful when I remember I have it.
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Re: Magnetic solution..
« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2021, 07:58:20 AM »
I used on of these to help assemble my top end. Some of those head bolts are quite deep. The magnetic end held both washer and nut….brilliant. Also also useful for retrieving the cam chain.

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Re: Magnetic solution..
« Reply #13 on: October 08, 2021, 12:48:29 PM »
Besides the large ones (as shown above) I love that little bugger with just 3mm diameter...

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