Here is a pic.

On 2/12/2018 at 5:32 PM, librarian101 said:

Here is a pic.

Did you make that acrylic base cover?

On 2/12/2018 at 1:09 PM, drjkel said:

For most ships, since I drill a space exactly the size of the magnet now, I just put the magnet in the hole and it's done. For the hollow ships, I put the magnet on a peg that already has a ball, put glue where I can in the hole in the ship and hold the magnet in place until the glue starts setting. Wiggling the peg once in a while so it doesn't get glued to the magnet is a good idea.

I LOVE your method of drilling a hole for the magnets, by the way. I haven't had a lot of trouble with just surface mounting mine, but that's a really nice touch!

3 hours ago, QuasarJones said:

Did you make that acrylic base cover?

The ycome from Laser Quill Designs.

So for those of you who have been doing this for a long time--any regrets in magnetizing your models? Or hindsight being 20/20 realizations? I'm thinking of doing my whole collection (strictly imperials/rebels), since I don't want to bother with having a separate set of "normal" pegs.

When doing this to affix magnets, does one Need to drill or use a dremmel?? Or can one get the hole made via using just an exato knife??

1 hour ago, LTuser said:

When doing this to affix magnets, does one Need to drill or use a dremmel?? Or can one get the hole made via using just an exato knife??

Drilling will work far better as tighter tolerances are useful.

A properly sized forstner bit gets you a perfect hole every time, and quickly. The alternative I'd recommend is not drilling at all, doing a poor job is just a pain in the a** once you realize what you could have done.

Disc magnets for the ships and pegs may avoid some wobble (see my first Upsilon) but you lose the ability to tilt your model out of the way, which is a big feature.

If I have any regret is that I used many types of super glue and some of them were more impact resistant than others. And I don't know which ones were which. Every time you put a ship on a peg, it's a small impact, they add up and some magnets came unglued.

So after all your trial and error, which glue did you stick with as the better one?

28 minutes ago, LTuser said:

So after all your trial and error, which glue did you stick with as the better one?

I still haven't figured it out. Between various hobbies, I've tried a few and they all have downsides. Some of them seem designed to glue themselves shut at some point, some seem to be designed to be impossible to apply in tiny doses, etc.

You want something that can be applied thin enough to dry quickly and that says it is impact resistant. I really wish I had a clear answer, it'd make my hobby life easier!

Thanks. Guess when i get to the game store tomorrow (for our weekly X-wing) i will ask..

Arise!

So I'm starting to magnetize. First one is an excess X-Wing who's peg fell out, so perfect. This is a new flappy-sfoil version, and the magnet I used (KJ R421) has to move well forward of the normal peg hole in order to allow for S-Foil flappiness.

I have also learned that I'm much better at gluing my fingers to my ball.... bearings than I am at gluing the bearings to the shaft.

(this post brought to you by superglued fingertips)

LOL.. As for the ball/socket packs, it seems every game store/hobby store i've looked in, don't sell them.

So other than online, anyone got any idea where one might get those sets?

On 1/29/2016 at 9:37 AM, Plainsman said:

Here

https://www.kjmagnetics.com/

Do you use both the ball magnet AND the ring/disk ones??

2 hours ago, LTuser said:

Do you use both the ball magnet AND the ring/disk ones??

No, you use a standard steel ball bearing along with the countersunk ring magnets. Don't order the BBs from KJ though, it makes their shipping prices go bonkers for some reason. Or it did last I checked which was admittedly not recently.

Copy that. May just go to lowes or menards for them then.

11 hours ago, thespaceinvader said:

No, you use a standard steel ball bearing along with the countersunk ring magnets. Don't order the BBs from KJ though, it makes their shipping prices go bonkers for some reason. Or it did last I checked which was admittedly not recently.

I ordered magnets and bearings from KJ recently, no problems.

Maybe only for international shipping? IIRC it was that magnets alone could use UPS whereas magnets plus bearings could only use USPS. Either way if it's better now that's to the good.

USPS. 50 magnets, 50 bearings. $15.50 for stuff, $5 for shipping. US Domestic, so sorry everyone else.

Well, tried lowes, home depot, even hobby lobby. Nothing came close. So just made my purchases via KB. Got 15 balls, and 15 of those R421s..

And they've arrived.. Now to get them attached..

How do you all store these nemodium magnets, when there's computer stuff in the same room? How much 'space' do you give around them, so the electronics don't get interfered with??

Just watch out for your floppy disks.

Seriously, you’ll be fine. Don’t throw magnets into your fan vents.

9 minutes ago, XPav said:

Just watch out for your floppy disks.

Seriously, you’ll be fine. Don’t throw magnets into your fan vents.

Non solid state hard drives are still magnetic storage. Keep them away from PCs with those period.

Not really.

KJ magnetics tried it.

https://www.kjmagnetics.com/blog.asp?p=hard-drive-destruction

Dont put magnets into the computer. In the desk is fine.

16 hours ago, Hiemfire said:

Non solid state hard drives are still magnetic storage. Keep them away from PCs with those period.

About how far away is ok? 2ft?