Thread: A weak magnet tells you...?

Originally Posted by Maladroit

So the Greaves is attracted to a stronger magnet like the rare earths but not to the weakly magnetized ruler?

Exactly.........

Originally Posted by Splashone

"A weak magnet tells you...." that you have to much time on your hands to be pondering such questions?

I'll make a deal with you frendo, I don't tell you what to do with your time, and you don't tell me what to do with mine.

Originally Posted by Wirm

One possible explanation would be that it is your razors blades themselves that are magnetized to various degrees.

Prolly right Wirm
I just demagnetized one of the blades attracted to the straight edge and it died. Science, thanks.

Tried rotating the non attracted blades 180º ? I'm thinking reverse the polarity ie like poles repel but a weak field may give the illusion of not attracting.

Here is what happened. Only one of the razors in this 'test' were on the jig with the rare earth magnets, so I dismissed that as a factor. But after playing magnet for awhile, and having a few voices of reason, I remembered that I once had the razor jig in a top drawer of a chest of drawers and on the top was, right as rain, my razors all lined up in the corpse pose,
resting. So back to my look at concavity in razor spines without the added sky is falling factor.

Originally Posted by WW243

I'll make a deal with you frendo, I don't tell you what to do with your time, and you don't tell me what to do with mine.

Gee, 'Frendo"! That were not very nice! He was just funnin'!

Now EVERYTHING gets demagnetized around here. I think this thing would kill a rare earth magnet right quick! (Thanks, Darl!)

I'm thinking Darl had a pile driven, and an H beam put on that. Then he would have welded on a piece of 1' plate steel and mounted the demag to it.

Originally Posted by WW243

I'm thinking Darl had a pile driven, and an H beam put on that. Then he would have welded on a piece of 1' plate steel and mounted the demag to it.

Sounds like something he would do!

Frankly, I don'y know what the big deal about magnetized steel as it pertains to razordom is, unless you have ferrous whiskers.
Personally, I find magnetic iron quite attractive..



yea, I said that..

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Gee, 'Frendo"! That were not very nice! He was just funnin'!

Now EVERYTHING gets demagnetized around here. I think this thing would kill a rare earth magnet right quick! (Thanks, Darl!)

During my Navy days ships had to undergo periodic demagnetizing (degaussing)of the entire hull.