Ouch!!!!!! and Ouch again!!!

[drrat1202]

how do,

   I just thought you guys were being overly protective or just protectin your A_ _.

But I just got the magnets in from forcefield and Ouch!!!   I pulled the first batch out and set it aside and pulled the next batch wrapped in cardboard and started to set it aside when the first batch from nearly a foot away came flyin thru the air and squished my little pinky!  OUCH!!!  

    After pullin those two apart I got those two apart I got the other two out and suddenly the knife I used to open the box came flyin at my hand, fortunatly it was the butt that hit the magnets but I jerked my hand back thinkin I just lost a finger and got that batch of magnets too close to another batch and OUCH!!! another squished finger.  

    Next time you folks say dsomethin I'm all ears!

dallas

[K3CZ]

AMEN, Bro' - - - ; When you start working with individual magnets, you develop some techniques for separating them (push against a stop with a piece of wood), but if you are careless and they snap together with a pinch of skin between them, the resulting wound takes weeks to heal. (!) I'm trying to find some bronze or stainless tools.

                         Van    K3CZ

[Ungrounded Lightning Rod]

I'm trying to find some bronze or stainless tools.

Try a boating supply.

[wdyasq]

Spark resistant tools are used in medical and oil-field work amoung other places.

Ron

[terry5732]

And put your wallet on the dresser before you go to the shop.

[wooferhound]

When magnets snap together, They can break into a large number of pieces. At that point thay are a buncha magnet bits with all the norths together, and all the souths together and they explode . . .

Believe me ,  I know !?

[chinsettawong]

I like to share my story too.

I was working on a pair of 17" rotors with 20 pieces of magnets on each of them.  After putting all magnets together, I wanted to see how these magnets on the 2 rotors aligned.  I mistakenly brought the 2 rotors too close to each other.  They snaped my fingers on both hands.  I tried the best I could to separate them but failed.  I eventually had to shout for help.  With the help of 3 people, the 2 rotors separated and my fingers hurt for a week .

So, be very careful when handling them.

Wachara Chinsettawong

Bangkok, Thailand

 

[hiker]

how do--

 that was good that was dam good--best laugh i had all week!

 im sorry but that was a good one..i bet you thought those mags were out to get yah!

 well thats one lesson learned the hard way--no dou"t!!

 hope your fingers survied.....

[Jeff7]

My grandfather said he found two speaker magnets in his basement, each about 5" in diameter. He said that they got close together at some point, and slammed together, sounding like a gun going off. He had to carefully use two crowbars and a vice to separate them. These are just ceramic magnets too.

I've gotten pinched with small ceramic magnets already

Neodymium magnets are just insane, and can literally be very dangerous. Put a bunch of them together on a small wheel, like for a wind generator project, and they can probably crush small bones if two wheels fly at each other.

[pyrocasto]

Shoot, I've gotten pinched pretty good with my ceramic microwave magnets. If you had a few slam together it would be dangerous as well.

[Arno]

     If any of you fellows have a pacemaker implanted, get a helper to mess with your magnets, even the ceramics! They do a lot more than pinch fingers, and can scare hell out of you.

 arno

[pyrocasto]

Well it's a good thing bolts, screws, plates, ect... arent made out of anything magnetic. O_O A neo could give you one hell of a headache if you had a magnetic metal plate in your head. ;-)

[TomW]

Chris;

Or a convenient way to carry them ;=].

T

[stevesteve]

I had some small neos delivered to work. It kept my colleagues amused all days. Every now and then there would be a 'snap' followed by 'eeeee' from my desk as I played with them.