How do you clean a welding magnet?

[Tunajoe]

I'm talking about the those red triangle welding magnets that you use to form a 90 degree angle.
My magnets have so much magnetic **** that they don't sit flush any more.
What's the secret to cleaning them?

I just recently purchased from Cyberweld the Strong Hand "On/off magnets and they are a big improvement but I'd still like to know how to clean up my old ones.

Thanks in advance!

 

[RivennHewn]

Wire brush into a garbage can.

 

[Thumper68]

I have a stronger magnet that I put in a bag and drag the dross off of mine with then just turn the bag inside out and into the trash.

 

[CJM8515]

I use a stiff bristle nylon hand broom.

 

[PoorOwner]

I was going to ask the same, I accidentally put it on the drill press and picked up all the shavings.

I think just have to scrub or scrape off everything you see

 

[Jeeper]

Duct tape works ok

 

[one9gt]

Shop vac


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[Mohawk Dave]

Compressed air. (Poor Owner, You could probably aim it and get a lot of them back on your drill press.)

But I like the bag trick by Thumper!

 

[Thumper68]

Compressed air. (Poor Owner, You could probably aim it and get a lot of them back on your drill press.)

But I like the bag trick by Thumper!

I also use the magnet in a bag trick to pick up scatter fasteners, easy to dump them back into a bin or box.

 

[Roberts210]

Duct tape! That's a great idea.

I am having the problem of iron grindings sticking to my welding magnets right now. I didn't think of duct tape. Generally I push the grindings onto one corner of the magnet and try to pull them off.

 

[jmlcolorado]

I usually just use a rag that's handy and rub them all to the sharpest corner, then pinch the dross off through the rag and drop into the can. Probably not the best way, but works for me.
Helps to have thick skin I guess

 

[JeepsAreBuilt]

I heard that Play-doh works well.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I use a wire wheel on the 6" or 8" grinder.

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[back2class]

Umm.. Just blow it off with compressed air. Simple

 

[countryroad82]

I'm in the blow gun camp. Quick, fast, easy, get back to the job at hand.

 

[Ed ke6bnl]

I'm in the blow gun camp. Quick, fast, easy, get back to the job at hand.

I use blow gun but warning, it is dangerous

 

[cheechi]

hit the magnet so hard it demagnetizes and the debris just falls off.

 

[demolitionman]

compressed air and blowoff nozzle works.

 

[Bondo]

compressed air and blowoff nozzle works.

Ayuh,.... Agreed, that's how I do it as well,....

 

[countryroad82]

I just happened to think of a somewhat funny story about cleaning off those magnets. I was at one of my friends shop and he was trying to wipe off the particles while $itching and moaning about how annoying it is to clean them off. I walked over to his air reel, got his blow gun, and proceeded to clean another magnet off in seconds. The look on his face was priceless of how stupidly simple it was and how it never occurred to him lol.

 

[DBendr]

I messed with them for a while. They interfere with the mig arc and the chips are a pain in the ****. Went back to speed squares, fixtures and pieces of box tube.Used them for many years before someone showed up with an overpriced magnet.

 

[Aaron Morris]

Sure someone has already said it, but I just wipe it off with a rag, gets it off for the most part.

 

[BD1]

Stainless steel wire brush works for me.

 

[mjoekingz28]

A stronger magnet with more gauss?

 

[1950mercury]

Buy the I ones with the off switch...turn off the magnatism and the metal shavings fall off

 

[APEowner]

The same way you pet a porcupine. Very carefully.

 

[unslow1]

I usually just use a rag that's handy and rub them all to the sharpest corner, then pinch the dross off through the rag and drop into the can. Probably not the best way, but works for me.
Helps to have thick skin I guess

That's how I do it.

 

[azhatchback]

Another vote for air compressor and blow gun. Make sure it's a real blow gun too not the ones with plastic tip to blow up kids toys and not the paint gun looking ones with the long narrow nozzle, just a good old fashion standard blow gun.

 

[Hephaestus29]

I used compressed air against my
better judgement, works pretty quick
but you'll want to use a full face shield
and or watch the angle that you blow
it off at so that it doesn't come back
at you.