Professor Frink
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I'm not brewing this weekend, so I figure I may try to make my stirplate. Where did everyone go to get their rare earth magnets?
Over $20 shipped just for the magnets for a stir plate? that's way more than you need to spend, you could build a whole stir plate for that much. If you're going to buy magnets online, at least look for something cheaper - you can get smaller rare earth magnets on ebay for like $4 shipped for a bunch of them.Oedipus Rex said:
Castle Meadow Brewery said:A good way to remove the magnets off their plates is to grab either end of that plate (NOT THE MAGNET!) with some vise grips or lock one end into a vise and twist the plate. The magnet pops right off the plate and you can use a paint scraper to pry it away. I broke a few of them using the hammer tap method. An acetone bath works to dissolve the glue as well.
I took apart six hard drives. I have this huge stack of metal squiggly things with magnets adhered to them, but not a single one comes of the big metal piece and it's too big to use on the stirplate.
I went to a local hobby store and they had them so I got a handful.
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