Unkel Kunkel Posted November 18, 2019 Report Share Posted November 18, 2019 This is a bit unusual.Not Triumph, but a motoring workshop curio. Kindly lent by someone to enable the remagnetising of the horse shoe magnets in a very old car magneto. Ridiculously, hernia-heavy, it can only operated for a few seconds at a time with a few seconds interval and anyone who has a pacemaker must be 10ft away.A low pitched hum after the switch is thrown is the indication it is working -and very effective it is to! Made by Crypton ( not Krypton, that’s Superman). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted November 19, 2019 Report Share Posted November 19, 2019 Love it! Pete has something similar to get his frontal lobes firing first thing of a morning. db 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted November 19, 2019 Report Share Posted November 19, 2019 Wonder what it does to mobile phones? Just for badness I'd label it 'wireless magnetic charging station' and leave it out somewhere prominent... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unkel Kunkel Posted November 19, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2019 7 hours ago, dougbgt6 said: Love it! Pete has something similar to get his frontal lobes firing first thing of a morning. db Well, I think you have come up with a business opportunity here - alternative medicine! “Electromagnetic Pulse therapy for aches pains and rejuvenating one’s electro- somatic and psychic aura to combat the effects of toxic semi somnambulism and electromagnetic depletion and ionic imbalance consequences of modern life” .Course of ten pulses and full aura field vitality assessment £850, extra emergency rescue 6 second double applications by appointment - without pre session aura assessment ( but with rapid well- being and dietary toxin awareness screen and personalised crystal orientation advice ) £275.” Please form an orderly queue. It would need a bit of re-paint of course... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyman Posted November 19, 2019 Report Share Posted November 19, 2019 A front runner of the original MRI scanner........ Tony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted November 19, 2019 Report Share Posted November 19, 2019 if i have a frontal lobe i cant see it or it don't work remind me of our smiths speedo calibration rig that had humongous electro magnets for re booting the speedo drives , hit the key and plunge half the factory into darkness never used in anger but i did convert a van speedo to run accurately in my austin maxi HL should have pinched it when we closed but it went in the skip , cost a fortune as did a lot of good test gear....progress....Bah humbug Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted November 19, 2019 Report Share Posted November 19, 2019 It may hum, but does it work? Like an MRI scanner, something that produces a very strong magnetic field can cause some unexpected events, and not just to pacemaker wearers. Like throwing steel tools about. In medicine, oxygen cylinders that are non-metallic were invented so that they could be used in and around MRI scanners, because even something that heavy could be thrown across the room! Amazing that no one bothered before, because the light weight cylinders are extremely useful in rescue situations, and are now the norm for transporting patients, even just around a hospital. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted November 19, 2019 Report Share Posted November 19, 2019 if the trollies are steel i visualise patients tearing around every time the button gets a push Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted November 19, 2019 Report Share Posted November 19, 2019 Put one at each end of the ward, then alternate them. It should rock the patients off to sleep nicely, or at least give them a nice tour of the place; up and down, up and down, up and down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted November 19, 2019 Report Share Posted November 19, 2019 Don't mock, the way the NHS is going, that'll be it! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted November 19, 2019 Report Share Posted November 19, 2019 beds with north south polarity ....chaos pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Clark Posted November 19, 2019 Report Share Posted November 19, 2019 2 hours ago, Pete Lewis said: beds with north south polarity ....chaos pete Well we're constantly being told that society is becoming polarised. Blame the politicians or blame the magnets... Nigel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted November 20, 2019 Report Share Posted November 20, 2019 An an epidemic of bipolarity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted November 20, 2019 Report Share Posted November 20, 2019 Could be worse, went to see mother yesterday, they wouldn’t let me in the ward. NOROVIRUS!!!! I’m retreating under the duvet. 😷 db Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted November 20, 2019 Report Share Posted November 20, 2019 as im in Herts and Beds the idea big magnets could stop the herts and crash the beds is worrying Pete 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qu1ckn1ck Posted November 20, 2019 Report Share Posted November 20, 2019 1 hour ago, Pete Lewis said: as im in Herts and Beds the idea big magnets could stop the herts and crash the beds is worrying Pete GROAN ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unkel Kunkel Posted November 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2019 I know of a farmer who had the literally shocking experience of accidentally triggering his implanted defibrillator when using his arc welder. Although he tried to make light of what must have been a very unpleasant experience, describing it as being like punched in the chest - “but from inside out”, he hasn’t tried it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted November 21, 2019 Report Share Posted November 21, 2019 Anyone with one of those, or ndeed any pacemaker, should avoid the strong magnetic field of the large currents in a welder, or indeed permanent magnets. A cardiologist may use one to turn the device on or off, non-invasively, or to recode it, by holding ithe magnet close to the skin. Strong magnets such as those believed by some to relieve arthritis are able to do the same, as are airport and shop (RFID) scanners from a greater distance. Mobiles and computers are safe, but don't carry the phone in a pocket right next to the device, and don't lean against an electric motor, for instance to apply pressure to a drill. Anyone with such a device will have had detailed advice, in writing, from the hospital. But farmers .... do they ever read the instructions? There are FOUR TIMES as many deaths due to industrial accidents in farming as in the next industry, construction (Farmer's Weekly, 2017, https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/agriculture-britain-s-highest-fatal-accident-rate) Lets be careful out there... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted November 21, 2019 Report Share Posted November 21, 2019 If you've ever tried to step over an electric fence in some farmer's field, and the wire has just brushed the inside of your upper thigh... well, it may not be fatal but it can certainly feel like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 21, 2019 Report Share Posted November 21, 2019 I had an Old English Sheepdog about twenty years ago - it decided to sniff an electric fence. First time I have seen such a hefty weighing canine go backwards at speed with paws off the ground !! Kept the scar on its nose through to its last day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark powell Posted November 21, 2019 Report Share Posted November 21, 2019 Footrot Flats , from the late Murray Ball, classic! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted December 9, 2019 Report Share Posted December 9, 2019 Surely he'd be okay with rubber boots on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted December 9, 2019 Report Share Posted December 9, 2019 depends i his boy's are insulators or.......... accumulators Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigolf Posted December 9, 2019 Report Share Posted December 9, 2019 We used to use the opposite device in Air Traffic Engineering - a Bulk Eraser ( or very large and very heavy demagnetiser) to erase 12 and 14" x 1" tape reels, for re-use in recording all of the Ground to Air /Air to Ground Voice communications for ATC. To use it you had to push the tape fully into a slot in the front of the machine - this involved your fingers going inside the machine during the process ! It was slightly disconserting because the large AC field made the tape reel vibrate loudly. Needless to say if you valued your watch you removed it first.☺️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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