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Old 11-07-2011, 05:54 AM   #147 (permalink)
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I have a couple of videos - would be more but some seem to have been corrupted by transferring to my new hard disk - will try and rescue them later.

This tank is looking a little better than the last one maybe.

Started to look into attachment methods for a kamm. I'd rather avoid tape for various reasons - not confident of the paint quality for one. James May (he of Top Gear fame) has another TV series called "Man Lab" where he does boys stuff, like explaining how to make paper from a felled tree and how to escape from a Prison.

Anyhoo he demonstrated a neat "holder" of things made up of a sheet of wood with strong magnets attached to it. Basically anything ferrous up to several KGs could be held on it.

Hmmm I though, magnets. So I bought a few 10mm Neodymium magnets to experiment. My though is to use them to attach something to the (glass) tailgate or to the metal body which surrounds it. I experimented with a sheet of correx (corroplast) and a magnet each side of the glass - too loose, it would come off easily. I then experimented with the sheet against the bodywork - same result. I'm going to try a thinner sheet of tape in the same positions - and then the correx could be attached to that but I may need stronger magnets to make this work.

If it does work, then I may have found a potential use for magnets to improve FE that doesn't involve voodoo science
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