Tool Magnetizer/De-magnetizer?

[Wills.WindowsAndWheels]

I was nosing around amazon and came across this http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00018AONE/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Cheap price...sounds cool, but i have no experience in magnetized tools other than a one philips that i have lol. Any thought/experiences?

 

[mike13u]

Thats pretty much it man. Stick the point of your screwdrivers, tweezers, etc in and they magnatize.

 

[bigbob302]

thats neat. keep it away from your wallet haha. for that price It cant hurt to try. for as much as I need to magnetize something, I just coil a piece of 10 or 12 gauge wire around the object and hold the ends of the wire on a battery terminal for 10 seconds or so.

 

[otis66]

I've had mine for over 20 years. They come in handy. That one looks pretty high tech compared to mine. Mine is just two magnets held together with two bands. The two mags together have a hole in the middle. I stick my screw driver in through the hole to magnitize and I rub the screw driver on the outer edge to de-magnitize. I also used mine to reset the ABS air brakes.

 

[Wills.WindowsAndWheels]

Thats pretty much it man. Stick the point of your screwdrivers, tweezers, etc in and they magnatize.

cool. sounded too simple to be true thats why i posted lol. Might grab me one Just gotta save up for a decent screw driver set first!

thats neat. keep it away from your wallet haha. for that price It cant hurt to try. for as much as I need to magnetize something, I just coil a piece of 10 or 12 gauge wire around the object and hold the ends of the wire on a battery terminal for 10 seconds or so.

lol yeah ya think!? a battery huh...sounds fun lol. Maybe you should get one of these too. What kinda work do you do

 

[otis66]

Also I used mine mostly to demag my screw driver more than mag the screwdriver.

 

[canuckian]

Bought a bluepoint one for about $3 a little while ago and it works well. Handy little device for sure.

 

[otis66]

A computer tech would use this to make sure his tools were not mag.

 

[bigbob302]

I do heavy equipment. What i was getting at by " as much as i need to magnetize something" was i dont need to do it very often haha. so in the rare event i do i just use the battery. works like a charm try it when ur bored some day

 

[otis66]

Here's mine. I bought it back in 1988.

 

[diesel research]

I also used mine to reset the ABS air brakes.

I am lazy, I use a magnetic retriever so I don't have to reach so far. Of course that is only certain bendix systems I work with, a lot of the others I just reset with the ignition switch.

 

[Wills.WindowsAndWheels]

I do heavy equipment. What i was getting at by " as much as i need to magnetize something" was i dont need to do it very often haha. so in the rare event i do i just use the battery. works like a charm try it when ur bored some day

ah gotcha lol...sure ill give it a shot and end up like

I am lazy, I use a magnetic retriever so I don't have to reach so far. Of course that is only certain bendix systems I work with, a lot of the others I just reset with the ignition switch.

Whoa wait....its just a damn magnet that resets the ABS switch? Kept having them activate when they weren't suppose to on a friends lincoln...thats what resets it?

 

[bigbob302]

haha its 12 volts ull come out alive

 

[bradweingartner]

A computer tech would use this to make sure his tools were not mag.

Now that floppy drives are a relic of the past, I use magnetized screw drivers all the time!

 

[Wills.WindowsAndWheels]

haha its 12 volts ull come out alive

Yeah ive been bit by small gauge stuff a couple times... as a kid actually..my dad would put up electrified wiring around our garden to keep the dogs out (nice guy) and say 'hey go touch that for me and see if it works'....

 

[diesel research]

Whoa wait....its just a damn magnet that resets the ABS switch? Kept having them activate when they weren't suppose to on a friends lincoln...thats what resets it?

This is airbrake stuff for trucks and especially trailers, not cars. The bendix systems usually have a series of LEDs on the side of the modulator, those indicate "fault codes" (voltage, module, ecu, left sensor, right sensor) After chasing the faults and running various tests, and making what you "think" is the proper repair, the ABS light usually still stays on until you pass a magnet over the ECU for a few seconds. Those modules are often way up in frame rails, so I just extend my retriever.

Don't waste your time trying this with cars. If you have repeated problems on a car, you are not repairing the actual problem, or are using cheap parts.

 

[Wills.WindowsAndWheels]

This is airbrake stuff for trucks and especially trailers, not cars. The bendix systems usually have a series of LEDs on the side of the modulator, those indicate "fault codes" (voltage, module, ecu, left sensor, right sensor) After chasing the faults and running various tests, and making what you "think" is the proper repair, the ABS light usually still stays on until you pass a magnet over the ECU for a few seconds. Those modules are often way up in frame rails, so I just extend my retriever.

Don't waste your time trying this with cars. If you have repeated problems on a car, you are not repairing the actual problem, or are using cheap parts.

Wow, talked over my head with some of that (no trailer repair experience here) but i think i kinda get what you're saying lol.

I didnt do anything with my friends car...so cant get the blame on that one...i think he finally got it fixed, cant remember for sure what the problem was

 

[pipsters]

Sears sells a lifetime warranty one for about $3 mine was made in the USA.

 

[otis66]

I am lazy, I use a magnetic retriever so I don't have to reach so far. Of course that is only certain bendix systems I work with, a lot of the others I just reset with the ignition switch.

I use my magnetic retriever also. Depends on were I am in the shop. Any mag will do.

 

[otis66]

Sears sells a lifetime warranty one for about $3 mine was made in the USA.

Mine said made in USA too and the packageing also said craftsman. But that was many years ago. I've never seen a mag go bad or stop working.

 

[otis66]

This is airbrake stuff for trucks and especially trailers, not cars. The bendix systems usually have a series of LEDs on the side of the modulator, those indicate "fault codes" (voltage, module, ecu, left sensor, right sensor) After chasing the faults and running various tests, and making what you "think" is the proper repair, the ABS light usually still stays on until you pass a magnet over the ECU for a few seconds. Those modules are often way up in frame rails, so I just extend my retriever.

Don't waste your time trying this with cars. If you have repeated problems on a car, you are not repairing the actual problem, or are using cheap parts.

On a school bus the module is under the hood on the drivers side. Nice and easy.

 

[srmofo]

I picked that (same one) up a few months ago for about $4 shipped, put it in your watch list and sit on it. It doesnt demag the greatest but it certainly does mag.

 

[gatewaysysop]

I have the same Wiha demagnetizer tool, also got mine of Amazon. Works like a charm and I absolutely love it, especially for the larger drivers (P3, etc.). For the price, I don't think you can get a higher quality one.

On a similar note, I had the Craftsman one that someone else showed. Don't know about other climates, but in here in Arizona it lasted less than a year before the rubber bands holding it together failed and I had two paper weights instead of a usable tool. Yeah I could rubber band it back together, but the Wiha will never have this problem, so I upgraded to that instead.

Definitely good tools to have regardless of where you get them, but I'll vouch for the Wiha model any day.

 

[oldies]

Save your $ for a beer or donate it to charity before you buy that POS! If you want to magnetize, just stick it on any magnet (the bigger the better). For the demagnetized slot, it is basically useless or shall I say false advertisement?

 

[Hoss356]

I just bought that same one and the demagnitizer slot works ****. Mine will completely demagnitize a screwdriver.

 

[dankicksass]

That green Wiha magnetizer is very small; I bought it a couple years ago and tossed it in with my little electronics repair bag, it didn't work well with anything sized PH1 or above.

 

[Wills.WindowsAndWheels]

I have the same Wiha demagnetizer tool, also got mine of Amazon. Works like a charm and I absolutely love it, especially for the larger drivers (P3, etc.). For the price, I don't think you can get a higher quality one.

On a similar note, I had the Craftsman one that someone else showed. Don't know about other climates, but in here in Arizona it lasted less than a year before the rubber bands holding it together failed and I had two paper weights instead of a usable tool. Yeah I could rubber band it back together, but the Wiha will never have this problem, so I upgraded to that instead.

Definitely good tools to have regardless of where you get them, but I'll vouch for the Wiha model any day.

in az here too man, what part you from?

 

[earlthegoat2]

I just hold a magnet to the tool I am using to magnetize it.

 

[Steevo]

When I was a kid (maybe 6 yrs old) my neighbor thought he was hot **** because he had a "magnetizer" in his garage. It was a wire coil would around a hollow tube, that induced magnetic characteristics on ferrous materials placed within its field.

By the time I was seven, I knew my neighbor as a charlatan and a huckster and never fell for his medicine wagon showmanship again.

 

[wafrederick]

You don't have to spend the money on one,a speaker out of anything including cars works.The magnet on them magnetizes on one side and the other side de magnetizes a screwdriver.This does work.

 

[oeyniman]

It's not rocket science, so if you think it's neat and or useful, just buy one.
The one I use is the same, just from GEDORE, using it mainly for de-magnetizing - which it does great.
The one I think is the coolest, is the one from @otis66.

There is another one in WERA star shape as well btw: