had a good idea to help stop dropped nuts and bolts from racing away to the far corners of my garage were they spend the rest of there life hidden anyway back to my idea ,its a magnetic mat,say six foot by four then once placed under the bike you do your usual strip down only this time when you drop a nut it will not bounce away but stay on the mat I was thinking a plug in cable like they use in a scrap yard so you can turn it on or off now all I need from some one is how do I make it work
large iron sheet : shielded copper wire you wrap the shielded wire around the large iron sheet, the two ends of the wire then get hooked upto say a couple of 12/24v motor batterys with an on/off switch, when flicked it porduces and electromagnetic field atttracting things to it ( bit like a giant magnet used in scrap yards. Problem , its a magnetic field and its a strong one to so if you were to say be setting up a cdi /efi unit you could be causing interference from the electromagnet affecting the units because of the large magnetic field.
yes but its powering it thats the main problem and it being a big iron plate wrapped in copper wire its not ideal. other way is a few magnetic mats ( like the magnet strips found in fridge doors ) but they are not very strong field wise, the only other way would be something like a blanket with a good few hundred neomidium magnets glued to the back .
sounds good stevep but its me who drops most of my bolts and nuts , or they run away when I turn my back
Know that too well, that's why I've got a cabinet full of little spare parts. I was looking everywhere last night for a white 4 way connector block that I'd took off to replace the pins in it, couldn't find it anywhere! Turns out it was right under my nose.................and it was black, not white. Plus I drop things and they bounce down into the pit where the floor level ramp is. Thing with that is the ramp is covered when it's down so you can't see into it. "There you are you little........"!
