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Magnet question, is this safe?

By bugray

11 years ago


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    #1 11 years ago
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    bugray

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    GB Basingstoke

    14y 54,650 697 97

    Hi,

    A question for you.....

    Would I be in trouble if I placed a strong magnet on the top of the backbox?

    Would it have any effect on the circuit boards?

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    #2 11 years ago
     
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    Wolfmarsh

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    12y 134K 10,956

    Like, how strong?

    (I doubt you have one strong enough to effect anything, but as soon as I say that you will pull out the coil from an MRI or something to go on top of a machine).

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    #3 11 years ago
     
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    gweempose

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    Yeah. It's unlikely you have anything strong enough to effect the boards from outside the machine.

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    #4 11 years ago
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    bugray

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    GB Basingstoke

    14y 54,650 697 97

    Haha, no just a magnet from the inside of a speaker.

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    #5 11 years ago
     
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    Crash

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    What are you trying to do?

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    #6 11 years ago
     
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    Tweedlefuzz

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    US Royal Oak, MI

    12y 27,650 673 3

    That would be fine (as long as its not like a 15" sub magnet lol)

    What are you putting up there?

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    #7 11 years ago
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    bugray

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    GB Basingstoke

    14y 54,650 697 97

    Picture this in your mind

    I plan to fix a magnet in the hole/gap ontop of a Tommy pinball, and then JB weld another magnet to a mirror gazing ball to use as a topper. Hopefully the magnetic attraction will be strong enough to secure the ball.

    What do you think?

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    #8 11 years ago
     
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    stangbat

    KC Pins

    13y 86,900 3,111 19

    It won't hurt anything. Despite all the tales of doom, you can put magnets right on top of a hard drive and not hurt anything.

    http://www.kjmagnetics.com/blog.asp?p=hard-drive-destruction

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    #9 11 years ago
     
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    Tommi_Gunn

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    rather go this route and use rubber. creating extra work messin with magnets.

    http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/looking-for-a-tommy-topper-data-east

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    #10 11 years ago
     
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    markmon

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    US Hillsboro, OR

    13y 98,300 13,010 21 81

    Hard drives are ate ast magnetic media. There is no magnetic media in a pinball backbox. Use whatever magnet you want

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    #11 11 years ago
     
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    Spudgunman

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    US Seattle, WA

    11y 52,900 1,299 9 24

    OP
    Quoted from bugray:

    Hopefully the magnetic attraction will be strong enough to secure the ball.

    and if not.. broken glass?

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