Sven
Well-known member
Water Sand Scoop Mod
For those wondering how to attach a magnet to your stainless steel water scoop.
As you know magnets will not stick to stainless. For the most part you will
have to resort to gluing the magnet in place. After a while, the glue degrades and
the magnet will fall off.
Gave it some thought, came up with an idea...using one or two Rare Earth Magnets.
If you have a scoop with a wooden handle----
Such as the ProScoop, that I currently use and own, this will work for you.
1)Between the handle and scoop a hole ground out to hold one magnet
2)Scoop was re-assembled.
3)Back of the scoop is now magnetized to hold most small nails and bobby pins. They are easy to remove from the back of the scoop.
4)As you know, magnets attract, dropped one inside the scoop above the one in the handle. It grabs any nails, bobby pins solidly, little bit tougher to remove them. Glue is not really needed to keep the magnet in place. Holds Canadian coins nicely.
Now if you have a metal handle, so you can't use the above mod, try this---
1.Place a rare earth magnet on the backside of your scoop and one on the inside.
2.Haven't tested this, to determine if the magnets will slide off during use.
3.You could always glue the magnets in place to be sure.
For those wondering how to attach a magnet to your stainless steel water scoop.
As you know magnets will not stick to stainless. For the most part you will
have to resort to gluing the magnet in place. After a while, the glue degrades and
the magnet will fall off.
Gave it some thought, came up with an idea...using one or two Rare Earth Magnets.
If you have a scoop with a wooden handle----
Such as the ProScoop, that I currently use and own, this will work for you.
1)Between the handle and scoop a hole ground out to hold one magnet
2)Scoop was re-assembled.
3)Back of the scoop is now magnetized to hold most small nails and bobby pins. They are easy to remove from the back of the scoop.
4)As you know, magnets attract, dropped one inside the scoop above the one in the handle. It grabs any nails, bobby pins solidly, little bit tougher to remove them. Glue is not really needed to keep the magnet in place. Holds Canadian coins nicely.
Now if you have a metal handle, so you can't use the above mod, try this---
1.Place a rare earth magnet on the backside of your scoop and one on the inside.
2.Haven't tested this, to determine if the magnets will slide off during use.
3.You could always glue the magnets in place to be sure.
