Recovering Parts from Inaccessible Places.

Progress, Volume IV, Issue 4, 1 February 1909, Page 127

Recovering Parts from Inaccessible Places.

A lately published suggestion for using an electro-magnet to recover a bit of metal from an inaccessible place is quite a useful one, though not new, but I think a whalebone or cane handle would be found to be an improvement, as the flexibility allows of its being pushed into corners which a stiff wire does not. This also makes a very useful "tool" in a workshop to retrieve small screws, springs, etc., which have fallen into shavings or sawdust on the floor and cannot be seen. Some have also seen one used m deep or muddy water, but then the cable must be "under water wire," and strong enough to drag* the magnet along the bottom. Dry cells with a switch m circuit are better than accumulators to provide the current, and much cheaper and handier to move about. Nothing makes a better core for an elec-tro-magnet than a lot of ladies' hair pins bound together, and enough for a big magnet can be found on the pavement any day. — Retriever.