gillian17
22-Feb-08, 18:20
I have just seen a heavy block of metal, possibly iron or steel, it was about 1.5" cube with a threaded hole in the bottom that looked as though it could fit on a tripod.
The extraordinary thing was it had a piece of steel running through it and protruding either one side or the other like a bed side lamp switch.
When this was pressed in at one side the block became a powerful magnet, press it from the other side it lost its magnetism.
There was a band of another metal, possibly brass, which looked like it passed all through the block, and I was told this but could not see it, a similar though much thinner band near the other side of the block.
It is not an electro-magnetic unless it works on the pd between the two metals but it seemed much to powerful for that.
Beats me.
The extraordinary thing was it had a piece of steel running through it and protruding either one side or the other like a bed side lamp switch.
When this was pressed in at one side the block became a powerful magnet, press it from the other side it lost its magnetism.
There was a band of another metal, possibly brass, which looked like it passed all through the block, and I was told this but could not see it, a similar though much thinner band near the other side of the block.
It is not an electro-magnetic unless it works on the pd between the two metals but it seemed much to powerful for that.
Beats me.