My quick tip that maybe someone else might appreciate as much as I did, is simple, and I'm sure, unoriginal. I pretty much keep a handy "magnet on a stick" whenever I am working under the hood. It’s inevitable that something will drop in the hood and you have to get the long reaching magnet out to retrieve a bolt or socket or who knows what. Well, one of the things that I can't hardly stand is the fine crust metal powder that’s always stuck to the magnet. If you’re grinding metal or welding, or brushing rusty metal, you have it around.
Tips: Cleaning Metal Dust From Magnet
Cleaning Metal Dust From Magnet
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
GearZ Team
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Travis smith
What is the tip for cleaning the debris from the welding magnets. I had that problem yesterday in my garage and kept wondering what the trick of the tip that I have not seen posted at this time
Jan 16, 2012 09:49 pm54 Woody
I have magnets on extendable arms, and always put a sandwich bag over the magnet, pickup what ever you want to pickup including grinding dust, go to the trash can and pull the bag back over the magnet and the junk comes off the magnet and you can use the bag again providing there are no holes in it
Jan 29, 2012 07:21 am
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