I have a pack of NSN0592 magnets laying around, and thought that they would be good candidates for a stir plate. However, the thing about these are that the magnetization direction makes it appear that I would have to mount these vertically.
The specs for these magnets can be found here: NSN0592
I've done some dry mockups with them and a pair of them mounted together do a good job of turning my star head stir bar from about two inches. Testing was done by putting the stir bar on a glass plate and manually testing the magnet strength from varying distances. With sixteen pounds of pull each, I am sure that these will be overkill once mounted.
The mounting is what I am trying to figure out, though. My two leading candidates are either mounting them on some sort of plastic square tubing centered on the case fan or by using some sort of structural plastic I-Beam with the top shaved off. From there, epoxying the structure to the fan and washers where the magnets will be placed.
Anyone else have recommendation, or worked with magnets similar that prevented flat mounting?
The specs for these magnets can be found here: NSN0592
I've done some dry mockups with them and a pair of them mounted together do a good job of turning my star head stir bar from about two inches. Testing was done by putting the stir bar on a glass plate and manually testing the magnet strength from varying distances. With sixteen pounds of pull each, I am sure that these will be overkill once mounted.
The mounting is what I am trying to figure out, though. My two leading candidates are either mounting them on some sort of plastic square tubing centered on the case fan or by using some sort of structural plastic I-Beam with the top shaved off. From there, epoxying the structure to the fan and washers where the magnets will be placed.
Anyone else have recommendation, or worked with magnets similar that prevented flat mounting?