My Police 3 is magnetic? A picture

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I have never seen this before. What causes it?
Screws are attracted to the steel liner.

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Pvt.snoballz said:
has it been near any strong magnets that you maybe werent aware of?
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If I was... I sure didn't know it. I'm usually at home or at work. At home I have no magnets except for what are stuck to my refrigerator. At work I'm surrounded by computers, so powerful magnets are a no no in there.


Worries me though since I'm always carrying around a flash drive or two in my pockets. Big problems if there were to get damage because my pocket knife was magnetic.
 
texas gun person said:
Worries me though since I'm always carrying around a flash drive or two in my pockets. Big problems if there were to get damage because my pocket knife was magnetic.
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That's absolutely nothing to worry about. You worry is a throwback to older data storage mediums like floppy disks or your BTO's Greatest Hits cassette tape. Magnetism has nothing to do with, and no affect on flash memory.
 
texas gun person said:
If I was... I sure didn't know it. I'm usually at home or at work. At home I have no magnets except for what are stuck to my refrigerator. At work I'm surrounded by computers, so powerful magnets are a no no in there.


Worries me though since I'm always carrying around a flash drive or two in my pockets. Big problems if there were to get damage because my pocket knife was magnetic.
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As far as I know, magnets will only bother mechanical hard-drives because of they're magnetic media. So if I remember correctly, flash drives will be okay.

You can find instructions on building a demagnetizer out of transformer if it really bothers you that much. If you have a CRT monitor, try putting the blade up to the screen and using the degauss feature--sounds crazy, but I've done it to demagnetize screws in the past.
 
Mybe it's a new upgrade to stiffen the blade detent and make it safer! :D
 
could have stored it in the same pocket as a cellphone.. they have a fairly strong magnet in the back somewhere.. or, since you work with computers.. it could have been one of them o.O

probably just some funk at the factory though.. metal rubbing on metal seems to make things magnetic sometimes
 
You can stick it through the loop of a soldering gun to try to demagnetize it.
 
magnets will have absolutely no effect on flash drives, because they are solid state electronics. No magnetism involved whatsoever. Now, go to floppy's, or hard drives, and you will have a problem, because they use a magnetic media.

as for what caused your knife to be magnetic...could have been around magnets of some sort, or just a good sized electronic field, metal on metal rubbing/movement, etc...
 
id suggest getting yourself another one and keeping that on the fridge in case you have any food packages that are especially hard to open lol
 
KennyB said:
As far as I know, magnets will only bother mechanical hard-drives because of they're magnetic media. So if I remember correctly, flash drives will be okay.

You can find instructions on building a demagnetizer out of transformer if it really bothers you that much. If you have a CRT monitor, try putting the blade up to the screen and using the degauss feature--sounds crazy, but I've done it to demagnetize screws in the past.
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Actually, you need a very strong magnet to effect a mechanical HD. Don't forget that the motor that runs the platters, as well as the EM field that controls the arm are quite strong magnets in and of themselves. Added to the fact that close proximity of a strong field is necessary to write to the platters, and we discover that any normal magnet you employ will not effect the drives at all.
 
I've rubbed a refrigerator magnet on the surface of a floppy disk some years ago and it had no noticeable effect on the data.
 
If it was in your pocket with a cell phone, that may have done it. The little speaker in my blackberry has a relatively strong magnet in it. If it is in contact with it for a long period of time it could become magnetized.
 
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