I finally got all of the magnets in their first boxes.
16 boxes of 12 and 1 box with 5 As with any good mining operation I screened the talings and packed in the few larger chips that were found in the assemblies. The strings of magnets are wrapped in plasitc cling wrap Next I will wrap each box in plastic wrap as well then wrap 3 boxes together in sheet metal and make a wood box for those to fit in I also want to drop in several packets of silica gel. Right now everything has been in a very low humidity environment for a long time ans some of those magnets could be left in the box for a couple years or more
this is how most of them looked inside.
This is how 3 or 4 looked inside
Starting a string, you really have to take care using box rails and a guide stick otherwise you can end up with magnet fragments flying everywhere if they happen to slam together, or they will become hopelessly stuck together and almost impossible to safely separate
A string progressing along smoothly
String wrapped in plastic wrap
in boxes
This is without a doubt the biggest mess I have ever had in my little home workshop