17 Cool Magnet Tricks

Posted by Miss Cellania in Science & Tech on April 22, 2009 at 12:42 pm


Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has quite a few neat things you can do with magnets. Some are really artful, some are great for teaching purposes, and here’s one I’ll definitely use sometime:

Find studs in your walls

Move a magnet over the wall until it finds a screw or nail head under the paint. You don’t even need to mark the wall– you can just leave the magnet there until you’ve drilled your holes.

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7 comments to "17 Cool Magnet Tricks"

  1. Markus Bailey
    April 22nd, 2009 at 1:38 pm

    One thing you do not want to do with these little magnets is having anywhere near toddlers. Two of these magnets swallowed can kill a baby when the intestines get perforated . . . Just saying.

  2. Alex
    April 22nd, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    I agree with Markus. Rare earth magnets aren't toys - they're cool, but get really dangerous as they get larger.

  3. earl
    April 22nd, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    If memory serves, in the movie "The Big Easy" Dennis Quaid's character, Detective McSwain, throws a powerful magnet through a shop window. When the magnet is checked into the evidence room, the friendly evidence clerk places the magnet next to a surveillance tape that show's McSwain taking a bribe. Both the evidence and the case against him is thus destroyed.

  4. K!P
    April 23rd, 2009 at 12:30 pm

    studs in walls...do you guys have brick magnets? :P

  5. Max Average
    April 23rd, 2009 at 12:38 pm

    I sent my friend a link to the Super Magnet Man - he ordered a handful of the little tiny ones like the ones in the photo, and is using them to hang the pictures on his walls.

  6. zorlack
    April 23rd, 2009 at 8:02 pm

    Not only can magnets find studs, they can also find pipes and BX-style armored electrical wiring...

    Maybe not the best way to find a stud :-/

  7. ted
    April 24th, 2009 at 8:25 pm

    Best way to find a stud is to hang out in the sauna at your local gym.


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