Re: magnets in HDs

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Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

>... We stuck one to an ordinary steel filing
> cabinet (thin metal, easily saturaged) and it took us an hour to get it
> loose.  We had to slide it to one edge of the cabinet and work it loose
> there, as there was no way of pulling it up off the surface. 

There is one of these magnets in a laboratory at my university. It is
attached to a steel column, and someone wrote "Excalibur" on it ;-)

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz