[Noisebridge-discuss] 1.4 T MRI magnets up for grabs

[Gopiballava Flaherty]

How do you move such an object? Once you put it in a car, can you get it out again? Do knives fly towards you from any room you bring it into?

iirc, United Nuclear calls their big magnets the most dangerous items they sell. 

Thanks,

gopi at iPhone


On Dec 6, 2011, at 23:08, Michael Shields <shields at msrl.com> wrote:

> From another list:
> 
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> Could someone use really strong solid state magnets in an art project
> for burning man or anything else?
> 
>      material:  AlNiCo  (aluminum nickle cobalt)
>      weight:  lots.   prob around or in excess of 1000 lbs per
>      strength:   1.4 Tesla or 14,000 Gauss total.
>      price:   free
>      currently in a nuclear magnetic resonance machine
> 
> They are going to be moved today, Dec 2, out of a house in Livermore,
> that might be a good time to pick them up, I don't know when or if
> there is a real deadline for collecting them.
>      Contact Charlie at 415.819.8105 or cremsen at yahoo.com
> 
> please disseminate, thanks!
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