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Rare Earth Magnets . . . hype?
I heard about the mod to replace the steering magnet with rare earth magnets from Radio Shack, so I thought I'd give it a try on one of my bits.
Once I got the old magnet out, it didn't seem much weaker than the rare earth one. Well . . . I've got a gauss meter at work, so I thought I'd check them out.
Stock magnet: 3,550 gauss
Rare Earth magnet: 3,700 gauss
The stock one is pretty strong already and I don't think the rare earth makes that big of a difference. I won't be wasting anymore time replacing magnets in the future.
Just my .02
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