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It’s the bench at work!

I made them, magnets with wires attached soldered onto silicon wire then pushed into female 4mm banana connectors.
Very simple!

Diameter is around 6.3mm.
I’ll make some slimmer ones soon that should be around 5.2mm using acetal rod rather than pushing the magnets into banana plugs!


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I wonder if maybe an apprentice could hold the probe on for you?
Doh! Of course not...I'm getting worse!
I do love magnets though...and by coincidence, two days ago, during renovation of an old building, I dropped my favourite Bahco wrench down the wall cavity (I was installing a 22mm radial circuit at the time, in the attic...water, I hasten to add, a water supply!). With a powerful torch I could just glimpse it lying there, 10' down, in the dust. I got a length of Terylene cord and tied on a magnet I got out of an old hard-drive...and fished it up first go! Hurrah! I say it was my fave wrench, it is actually a replacement for one I bought a few years ago, but that one went missing when a plumber was installing a new boiler in my garage and I was assisting...
just saying...
Anyway, those magnets from hard-drives are brilliant, if you can be bothered dismantling them. (Sad, eh?):(
 
Every day for the last year I’ve been thinking I need some test probes for my multimeter that have a small magnet in the end to connect to the screws on contactors, MCB’s etc.

I found these on eBay, but the diameter is 7.5mm so a bit big for some connection screw holes.

Has anyone seen any anywhere else?

Thanks.


Test Probes Electrical Tester Fluke Megger Metrel Kewtech Seaward others 4mm | eBay - https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F282134794461
Can’t see any magnetised probes in the link?
 

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