Thread: Mysterious magnetic razor

Originally Posted by Mike Blue

Study the following. The razor is 0.760 inches wide and despite being a sacrificial Pak & Stan Brothers POS, has not been altered in any manner. It remains an intact razor like object. The third photo clearly shows 1.060 inches.



Yes, your knowledge of physics is somewhat in arrears. Consider another process of magnetizing and demagnetizing a piece of steel by exposing to another magnet's poles. Another magnet is all that is housed inside this cute blue plastic box.

What was that you were saying about how a razor won't fit into the holes? Is it possible for me to describe this device any more adequately? Otherwise I'll leave you to your doubts.

A piece of steel can be magnetised with another magnet? So I have always been led to believe. My mistake, quite possibly a silly one, was in assuming that the holes referred to were in the hidden underside, rather than the razor-sized ones. While certainly good enough for a workshop tool which is making a nuisance of itself, I doubt if this would be effective enough to eliminate the picking up of dust-sized fragments. But then as I said in my ignorance of physics, that is a pretty slim and theoretical possibility with a razor.

I didn't think it necessary to say that when I referred to electrical demagnetisers, it wasn't to this device, which was surely permanent-magnetic. I really would advise testing an unknown electrical device on something else first.