Remagnetising Horseshoes
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Remagnetising Horseshoes
A few hours of this worked a treat...
A general lack of free time stopped me from following John Hall's advice in my "Weird Horseshoe posting" re: finding an arc welder (but appreciated nonetheless) and a fellow RIC player (my mate Dave) suggested this approach.
The shoes are a perfect fit around the magnet (that's a Fane 15" from my old Trace 1518 cab) and the poles were the right way around. The shoes have gone from barely being able to lift a small washer to being able to lift each other, or pieces of cutlery.
A general lack of free time stopped me from following John Hall's advice in my "Weird Horseshoe posting" re: finding an arc welder (but appreciated nonetheless) and a fellow RIC player (my mate Dave) suggested this approach.
The shoes are a perfect fit around the magnet (that's a Fane 15" from my old Trace 1518 cab) and the poles were the right way around. The shoes have gone from barely being able to lift a small washer to being able to lift each other, or pieces of cutlery.
Laziness is just resting before you get tired...
Mission Statement: "I shall endeavour to pummel your underdanglings with tidal waves of bassily groovings. Oh yea."
Mission Statement: "I shall endeavour to pummel your underdanglings with tidal waves of bassily groovings. Oh yea."
I bet you could simple stick on a couple of Radio Shack rare earth magnets to a horseshoe ... the magnets are about 1/8" in size ... you could place them discretely out of sight on the horseshoe and it would never demagnetize ... but you would have to make sure you get the north south direction correct ...
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Which would presumably re-orientate the magnetic field on the Horseshoes themselves wouldn't it ?? I wonder how long it would take. Instantaneous ? Hours ? Either way once it's settled I guess it wouldn't affect the sound would it ?
Laziness is just resting before you get tired...
Mission Statement: "I shall endeavour to pummel your underdanglings with tidal waves of bassily groovings. Oh yea."
Mission Statement: "I shall endeavour to pummel your underdanglings with tidal waves of bassily groovings. Oh yea."
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Re: Remagnetising Horseshoes
I have a Sonicare tooth brush, every time I change heads on it, I take the rare earth magnets out of it. They're coated in black lacquer and are strong as heck. I use them for all sorts of things, the most useful is putting on on a socket when I'm changing oil in my car so I don't drop the lug into the oil pan.
Anyhow, I guess I found another use! Since my horseshoe is black, they would not show at all. I'll let you know how it works. Hopefully it won't be too strong as to interfere with the string sustain.
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j.
Anyhow, I guess I found another use! Since my horseshoe is black, they would not show at all. I'll let you know how it works. Hopefully it won't be too strong as to interfere with the string sustain.
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j.
Re: Remagnetising Horseshoes
Yeah, yeah...ancient thread, I know.
But I was curious if anyone has a link to the John Hall "how to remagnetize a horseshoe using an arc welder," as mentioned above?
Cuz...
1) I did a search and cannot find it.
2) I'm curious....and happen to own an arc welder.
But I was curious if anyone has a link to the John Hall "how to remagnetize a horseshoe using an arc welder," as mentioned above?
Cuz...
1) I did a search and cannot find it.
2) I'm curious....and happen to own an arc welder.
Re: Remagnetising Horseshoes
NEVER MIND....FOUND IT !!
Re: Remagnetising Horseshoes
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