Put them in a zip loc bag, and if they pickup some ferous chips turn the bag inside out and pull away to remove the chips. Vacuum clamps work with just ~14 PSI of clamping force so I don't see why magnets wouldn't work for light cuts as well. ------------------------------------ I've found that a smallish cylindrical magnet with a chopstick or similar glued to the end of it works really well if its inside a sealed off thin walled plastic tube. I use it to fish for swarf and filings in blind holes and awkward corners of cases where you can't get a hoover nozzle. As with the aluminium can example you just slide the magnet out a bit and all the metal falls off.
Maybe that electromagnetic cancellation trick could be used to get the bits off a bare magnet that's covered in filings? I'll have a go at that later, I've got a super strong rare earth one that fell on the floor and ended up covered, got most off but there's always the dust sized bits that just push around. JHC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154624111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
