I found a Brass Magnet
We used to have many joke things we would mess with people on. From range fans, to chem light batteries, to being fitted for a body bag, or filling out an I D ten T form, etc.
On trip to train foreign troops in Europe, I found a brass magnet, and it worked great!
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On trip to train foreign troops in Europe, I found a brass magnet, and it worked great!
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Yes, but policing up brass after shooting on rangers is the term used for cases, and that magnet picked up the ‘brass’.
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Drop a neodymium magnet down a piece of straight copper tubing. You will be amazed.
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The copper still isn't magnetic.
The moving magnetic field from the magnet creates an induced current in the copper tubing; where there is (of course) a magnetic field from the current.
If the magnet isn't moving, there is no induced current, and therefore no magnetic field (except for the magnet).
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Even most of the shotgun shell** "brass' is really steel.
*** "Club Loads", STS, Nitros, etc. I think Winchester AA's are still brass. I've loaded a lot of AA's but never thought about using a magnet on them. Most of the AA's I've shot are shot in an O/U.
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Yes I agree with you. I just think its a neat trick. The tubing becomes an electromagnet which reacts with the neodymium magnet.
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Mojo Pick Stick - Magnetic Shotgun Shell Retriever (saffordtrading.com)
Works great on steel hulls. So So on brass hulls because only the primer is attracted
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I miss the old days when people would have caught the humor.
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Makes one question of the 3,400 people that bought blinker fluid on Amazon, were they going off friends advice or pranking others…
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