Has anyone ever magnetized their own? I was getting an order for rockler ready to get some free shipping and they don't sell these.
I have a really strong magnet that was used to check a pacemaker over a phone and I wonder if it will be good enough to make the shims stick.
The ones you buy seem to be made out of refrigerator magnet type material so maybe the metal ones don't have enough mass to magnetize well?
I'm just reading up/researching to do some dado cuts for the first time.
I like ordering from rockler because they get things here pretty fast and ordering the shims from somewhere else would double their cost and I don't know if I'd get them before next year.
It's a no-mans land for woodworking stores around here where I live. Menards is the best I can do unless I want to drive 40 miles.
I wouldn't bother but I read that a lot of complaints are the shims drop into the threads so if I can avoid that all the better.
Or is there another tip for sticking shims? I found one on wd40 but I don't want a lot of that sprayed into my saw.
Tips, suggestions?
I have a really strong magnet that was used to check a pacemaker over a phone and I wonder if it will be good enough to make the shims stick.
The ones you buy seem to be made out of refrigerator magnet type material so maybe the metal ones don't have enough mass to magnetize well?
I'm just reading up/researching to do some dado cuts for the first time.
I like ordering from rockler because they get things here pretty fast and ordering the shims from somewhere else would double their cost and I don't know if I'd get them before next year.
It's a no-mans land for woodworking stores around here where I live. Menards is the best I can do unless I want to drive 40 miles.
I wouldn't bother but I read that a lot of complaints are the shims drop into the threads so if I can avoid that all the better.
Or is there another tip for sticking shims? I found one on wd40 but I don't want a lot of that sprayed into my saw.
Tips, suggestions?