Re: Testing blocks in the home shop
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Originally Posted by Tim Ayers
This post is great. I must have missed it, so you run electrical current through the magnet, correct? Did you just use alligator clips to an old battery? The switch you are talking about it is to turn the magnetic field on and off?
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Yes on all points. Thinking the switch will be made from a piece of a hacksaw blade I can press down with my thumb to make contact. I use a 12V deep cycle battery I borrowed from my son's boat. He stores the boat here (I always have an extra battery for my tinkering. 
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03-03-2023, 09:02 AM
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