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44man
02-25-2010, 11:17 AM
I am building an RC plane for a friend and have to glue many bulkheads at 90*. All of you know how hard it is to keep everything in line. This might work for many other projects too.
My table is steel so I laid the fuselage on it so the welding magnet holds it. I had a super strong magnet from an old computer hard drive. It is so strong I need pliers to remove it from metal. It holds the wood to the welding magnet. I put epoxy on the wood and set it in place. It is working like a champ.
The plywood is 1/4" thick and those two magnets really clamped it tight.

scrapcan
02-25-2010, 11:37 AM
44man,

Here at work every office that talks to the IT group has lots of refridgerator magnets in that shape. I use them for a lot of stuff. Our IT gorup has to destroy the hard drives when a unit is sent to surplus. Not even DOD type drive scrubbing is good enough, they have to take them apart and destroy the platters.

A coworker drilled and tapped a couple to put small hand on to make removal easier.

But good idea. For another use.