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- From: dab@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Flash)
- Subject: Tank Bag Monopole Magnets
- Message-ID: <C1DJtA.EuM@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
- Summary: was: Re: Courier bag: Do you have one?
- Originator: dab@space3
- Keywords: Spagthorpe
- Sender: news@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
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- Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA
- References: <llrpafINNkp@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1993Jan22.212815.461@pages.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:05:33 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1993Jan22.212815.461@pages.com> bigdog!jon (Jon Wright) writes:
- >I asked somebody at MotoPort about this and they said the ceramic magnets,
- >which were more powerful than the previous metalic ones, were also polarized or
- >uni-directional or something, which prevented screwing up your disks and cards.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- The Monopole Magnet(tm) was first pioneered by Jillian Spaghtorpe, Lord
- Julian's sister. In theory, the single pole magnet extends its magnetic
- field in only one direction. This enables the magnet to "stick" to the
- tank while not erasing credit card stripes, disks, et cetera. However,
- if one removes the bag from the tank, the mag field reaches out to infinity.
- If not pointed toward the center of the earth, the magnets on the bag become
- stealth degaussers, destroying hysterisis in oxide coatings for hundreds of
- feet in the direction in which it is pointed. The material used today is a
- special psychoceramic, said to be invented by a crack-pot rogue inventor.
- The initial project proved a failure when Jillian discovered that Julian was
- using aluminium petrol tanks. Despondent at her wasted effort, she turned a
- water cooled experimental high power monopole on herself. Having ridden
- slowly and taken Geritol, her blood was iron rich and her entire brain was
- degaussed. She remains a sad but drooling shadow of her former self, whose
- speech is only intelligible to Stephan Hawking.
-
- >I guess the next obvious question is, "How do you know if they're polarized or
- >not?"
-
- Just look for the JBS logo on the magnet itself. Or else, turn it around and
- see if it still sticks to the tank.
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