Im lost without the PW thread!!!!

[dingleberry]

Anyone ever futzed around with neodymium magnets? Those little buggers are strong!

[ajholt7]

Anyone ever futzed around with neodymium magnets? Those little buggers are strong!

Nope.

[dingleberry]

Change your manifolds and risers every 3-5 seasons. I have never heard that before.

That's a new one to me, too

[Fiveflat]

I futz around a lot with magnetrons, but not neodymium magnets. I've never heard of neodymium. What is neodymium?


I like to futz around without magnets even!

[dingleberry]

Nope.

They are pretty cool. The strongest permanent magnets known. I read a little about them after we started working on a rare earth metals mine - one of only two in the world. Anyway, they are often used in hard drives, speakers, and other places where a small, strong magnet is beneficial. Then a co-worker destroyed a hard drive and took out its magnet. Makes your standard ferrous magnets look like big wimps in comparison.

[ajholt7]

They are pretty cool. The strongest permanent magnets known. I read a little about them after we started working on a rare earth metals mine - one of only two in the world. Anyway, they are often used in hard drives, speakers, and other places where a small, strong magnet is beneficial. Then a co-worker destroyed a hard drive and took out its magnet. Makes your standard ferrous magnets look like big wimps in comparison.

I may have to destroy some hard drives to check them out.

[dingleberry]

I futz around a lot with magnetrons, but not neodymium magnets. I've never heard of neodymium. What is neodymium?

Neodymium is a rare earth metal. On the periodic chart, they are those weird rows that are usually separated out and shown below the rest of the chart. I think they are called the lanthanide series.

Rare earth metals have been found to have some unusual properties and have been used recently in a lot of high-tech stuff. There are only two locations in the world that have been commercially mined - one in California near the border with NV, and one in China. The US mine had stopped production about 12 years ago due to environmental compliance issues and Chinese prices. But, since they are so often used in high-tech things, recently the US gov't realized that it was not a good idea to rely upon a supply from China for all our military technology raw materials. So the US mine is gearing up to start production again.

[majestic]

Samson emailed me and let me know that they are making surf rack forks to bolt to the factory Tige plates for $260

Group buy I'm in.

[dingleberry]

My brain hurts.

Probably because it's full.

[bigdaddy_houseboater]

Mornin Hoes.

[dingleberry]

Mornin Hoes.

morning hose

mourning hoes

mourning hose

[bigdaddy_houseboater]

And mourning Hoes... (when one hoe is kilted.. the otherz iz a mournin)

morning hose

mourning hoes

mourning hose

[lohe]

Lurk lurk

[dingleberry]

Lurk lurk

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[dingleberry]

And mourning Hoes... (when one hoe is kilted.. the otherz iz a mournin)

can't say that I want to hear the explanation of morning hose