{"id":1640,"date":"2010-10-23T06:18:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T06:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/blog\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2010-10-23T06:18:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T06:18:31","slug":"fun-with-magnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Magnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not the rocket engine, nor the high powered amplifiers, or even the band saw can beat the Neodymium magnets as the most dangerous\u00a0 thing in the shop.\u00a0 Regardless of how careful we handle them you always get bit one way or another.<\/p>\n<p>I went to get the\u00a0 magnets to put them back on the MHD generator.\u00a0 Each set was wrapped in three inches of bubble wrap then double wrapped in woven nylon bags then put in a box of packing peanuts. They had been in this box for about a week. All the while the pair had been slowly popping the bubble wrap and inching closer together. When the bubble wrap was gone they started compressing the plastic into a thin film. When I opened the box instead of finding two magnets six inches apart I found one solid block separated by 1\/32 inch smear of plastic.<\/p>\n<p>Two vices, four large plastic wedges, a pry bar and\u00a0 hour and a half later they were separated once again ready for mounting on the generator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not the rocket engine, nor the high powered amplifiers, or even the band saw can beat the Neodymium magnets as the most dangerous\u00a0 thing in the shop.\u00a0 Regardless of how careful we handle them you always get bit one way or another. I went to get the\u00a0 magnets to put them back on the MHD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}