My Izula has a magnetic personality...

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El Gringo

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My RC 4 doesn't. Are any of yours?
Here's a pic with some staples clinging onto the tip.:eek:

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I did stab a empty can of Zippo lighter fluid about 3 times...but that was a month or more ago.:confused:
 
I noticed that I can't use a small button compass anywhere near my Izula, but didn't think to check if it was magnetic or not.
 
You shouldn't use any compass near any metal, regardless if it's magnetic or not. It will effect your bearing.
 
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Obviously, but if it was magnetized, wouldn't you need to keep it even further away?
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Not sure what the safe distance is, but it's not really a point. If it's metal you shouldn't be using a compass near it to get a reading. By your post I wasn't sure you understood that concept.
 
panzertroop said:
Not sure what the safe distance is, but it's not really a point. If it's metal you shouldn't be using a compass near it to get a reading. By your post I wasn't sure you understood that concept.
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Np, I didn't try to navigate with my compass on top of the knife or anything, just noticed that it didn't have to be close at all in order to throw the compass off, which surprised me a little. Considering how a compass works, it would stand to reason that anything magnetic would interfere more with the Earth's magnetic field than a simple piece of metal.
 
I've had a knife or two get magnetized.
It can happen with pretty much anything steel if it gets repeatedly passed through a magnetic field at a consistant angle.
(thats one way to make a emergency compass actually, magnetizing a needle, and floating it on water's surface tension.)

Anyway, you should be able to make your knife non magnetic again by waving a common magnet over it in random criss-cross directions for a couple minutes. It'll mix up the molecule's orientation and it'll be back to normal steel. :)
 
But those molecules are still not meant to be punching holes in metal cans ;)
 
R.A.T. said:
But those molecules are still not meant to be punching holes in metal cans ;)
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My two year nephew was playing with some soda cans one day, throwing them around and watching them bounce and roll and ended up denting a few. Well later that night when I got thirsty I went to open one but the top was dented out to where the pull tab wouldn't work. So I just reached into my pocket, pull out an Izula and put a hole in the top of the can. No magnetic Izula here though.
 
I gave my sister an old gerber I had and after a year or so in her purse, with a bunch of other stuff in it, it was heavily magnetized. Weird stuff.
 
One of my gerber pocket knives I bought a couple years ago turned out to have a slightly magnetic tip. Never had that happen it any of my other knives though.
 
I own a Bark River Classic Lite Hunter that is magnetic like yours. I have no idea why as I have never exposed it to a magnetic field.

My RC-3 and my other fixed blades are not magnetic.
 
I've just checked all my knives, just my tenacious has the same problem (if u would consider that a problem xD..)
 
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