Often, upon returning from the store, customers find magnetic clips on purchased items. Careless sellers simply forget to remove the magnet from their clothes. And, in violation of all the rules, the output of the thing for some reason does not "peep." What should be done in this case?
The first advice is that the buyer should return to the same store where the thing was bought, present to the seller a check and the thing. It’s best when the clip is removed by a specialist who has the right tool for this.
However, there are cases when there is no way to return to the same store: for example, a purchase was made in another city or a check was lost. The question arises: how to remove a magnet from clothes at home in this case?
This question is not at all idle. Indeed, among other things, often a coloring liquid is poured into the clip. Therefore, sometimes such an unpleasant incident happens that a buyer, having discovered a magnet at home, starts, according to an old Russian habit, “correcting this mistake with the help of a chisel and sledgehammer”. The plastic clip breaks, and the paint spoils a new, sometimes expensive thing. It's a shame!
Although some share their tips on how to remove a magnet from clothes and not ruin them. For example, it is proposed to cut the head of the clip with a hacksaw for metal. For insurance against staining, keep the clip with the hole up. Having made two oblique incisions, you need to remove the hat and pick out the mechanism.
There is another option, how to remove a magnet from clothes, which also offer Internet users. They suggest harder to hit the clip on the floor with the convex plastic side. After the strike, the magnet flies off by itself.
However, this option is extremely dangerous just for those cases if the clip is filled with paint: after such a removal of the mechanism, the thing will probably be damaged. Therefore, someone who shared his experience should understand: he was just lucky!
Someone uses side cutters to “free” clothes. Someone heats the “navel” with the flame of a lighter until a hole is formed through which the insides of the chip are pulled out. And someone simply pliers bent the edges of the clip, pulled out a white ring that passed along the contour, and as a result the spring and the cloves easily separated.
All the tips on how to remove a magnet from clothes using mechanical actions, although they can lead to a positive result, however, have a certain risk of damage to the product. Therefore, experts consider the option using a strong magnet to be optimal and safe.
For this procedure, you need to acquire, in fact, a strong magnet. It can be taken from a used hard drive from a computer. They will need about 4 pieces. Used hard drives are sold on radio markets for 50 to 200 rubles. Of course, buying 4 discs at 200 rubles to demagnetize a beeper with a thing at a price of 1000 rubles is a dubious pleasure. Another thing is if the purchase had a cost much higher than the cost of 4 discs.
So all the same, how to remove a magnet from clothes if the buyer chooses the option of using magnets from hard drives for this? First you need to remove the magnet from the disk. This is easy to do by driving a thin blade of a knife between the plate and the magnet and squeezing the magnet with force.
However, it should be noted that the magnet must be applied to the very top of the beeper, to its extreme protruding point. The magnet demagnetizes the clip, and the mechanism itself opens.
You can not bother with the purchase of old hard drives, but immediately go to the hardware or radio store and buy a strong magnet there. Although there are several ways to make it at home. It is enough to take a small magnet and a piece of iron, having drawn iron several times over the magnet, you can "magnetize" it. Of course, over time, from impact or strong heating, iron will lose the properties of a magnet. But after all, we need it for a very short time.
There is still a way to make a magnet at home. True, this requires a rather large inductor, and there is a danger of short circuit.