new way to pick up range brass

[kendak]

after a day at the range stopped by the local WM & check ammo supplies ..was bitching about how hard it is to find and pickup the brass [bad knees & 65yrs. don't help] the sports dept. mgr. told me that he would just use a magnet & problem solved !!...I replied that I had a super magnet stuck to my alum. tool box on my truck & he said "that will work great" ...this is not a kid but a 38 to 40yr old grown man...where do they get these people ?... he doesn't own a gun but he's the head of Sporting Goods !!! I wonder did he go to science class ?? ..take care...:banghead:

 

[Nickel Plated]

LOL, what do you expect for minimum wage. The employees in WallyWorld often don't have a set department they work at every day. They get moved around from place to place depending on where they're needed that day. So this guy probably worked groceries yesterday and cosmetics the day before. Don't expect them to know ANYTHING about guns.

When I go there, I do ALL my research and make final decisions on what I buy online. So when I'm in the store, I just point to the shelf, say "Gimme that one" and plop the money on the counter. No questions, no conversations.

BTW you could try this for picking up brass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pNF6rJl-hc
They have different sized ones for if you need to get something bigger like shotgun shells.

 

[kendak]

what a world we live in ...thanks for the tip

 

[rcmodel]

I replied that I had a super magnet stuck to my alum. tool box on my truck & he said "that will work great"

So?

If its stuck to your aluminum tool box, it probably would work great on brass too.

BTW: NASA will for sure want to know about this.
(Magnetic space suit boots that stick to Aluminum & Titanium & Ceramic heat shield tiles!!)

And there might even be some big money in it for you!!

rc

 

[BCRider]

WHAT? You never heard of brass magnets?

Admittedly they ARE a bit of a specialty item. But there's the place that sells magnets that work on brass, aluminium and wood. Very handy. The problem is that the store is there one day and the place is vacant the next...

 

[Nickel Plated]

I can get a magnet to stick to aluminum, brass, plastic, even wood. Ask me how.

 

[pikid89]

to be fair, given a powerful enough magnet, the magnetic field can actually affect non ferrous metals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iABmUEH5s0k

 

[Reloadron]

I can get a magnet to stick to aluminum, brass, plastic, even wood. Ask me how.

Glue or a thin application of snake oil to the magnet. I use snake oil all the time.

Ron

 

[rondog]

Kendak, do a Google search for Brass Mower. I have one and it's wonderful! Best thing since reloading presses.

 

[kendak]

thanks guys you have restored my sanity .......

 

[Al Thompson]

Brass magnet... That explains the 20 round boxes of .30-06 ammo with 19 empty cases. Obviously some of those old timers at my range have a few buried around the firing line.

 

[K1500]

Dude just likes to reload Wolf.

 

[rhinoh]

The brass magnet WalMart associate must work with the one that told me he reloads .22 ammo so he doesn't have to buy any..

 

[Fractal X]

I hope he does go and pick up all the brass with his high power magnet. It'll save me the hassle of picking out out the steel cases when I go through and inspect them...

 

[76shuvlinoff]

Is there a portable battery powered (or gas?) vacuum available a brass rat could use and remain upright? Maybe on a back pack like a commercial leaf blower?

 

[Outlaw Man]

Maybe that explains why I'm always getting hit by empties at an indoor range...

 

[PBR Streetgang]

I never saw such a bunch of doubting Thomas's......I use my magnet on a stick to pick up empties all the time,,,

just wrap the magnet with good duct tape ,sticky side out!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's so simple a caveman could have thought of it!

Actually I have a basket with wire fingers on a handle that you run over the brass with a little pressure and it slips inside the basket................I can't get up and down so easy anymore due to rods along my spine...............this make it a breeze to pick up fired brass!

 

[gpb]

Brass magnets are commonly used in the brass ore mining industry. They are used to separate the brass ore from the rock over burden. Without them the brass mines would be too uneconomical to operate.

 

[Mainsail]

I once went the 'helpful hardware place' looking for crocus cloth to clean a sensor on a gas fireplace. The clerk gave me some sandpaper, which had I used would have destroyed a $200 part.

I guess everybody can't know everything.

 

[egyas]

You could always try a Holt's Nut Wizard. Here's a link to the website and a youtube video showing one at work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0MqEWW3L8c
http://www.holtsnutwizard.biz/

 

[PRD1]

Well...

if our local range is typical, you could pick up a large load of 'brass' with a magnet any day at all.
I did jokingly suggest to an EE friend that he could make a lot of money by inventing a brass magnet - he said that it would be possible, but you'd need a field of about 1 million Gauss (guessing), and a very large truck to lug the machine and it's generators around.
PRD1 - mhb - Mike

 

[MrDig]

I have an actual solution if you would like

First go to the kids section and get a small plastic toy rake. Next go to the Pet Section and get a pooper scooper and save your knees and back.
and yeah asking serious questions at Walmart or other Gun Counters can get you some serious headaches and Heart burn so just don't do it.

 

[wally]

to be fair, given a powerful enough magnet, the magnetic field can actually affect non ferrous metals

True enough, but than many of them will be repelled, not attracted

Maybe the clerk has never used anything but Wolf steel cased ammo

 

[autumist]

Brass Magnets

I once checked at a store here in North Carolina looking for "bronze wool", the assistant took me to the knitting counter???????????

 

[PBR Streetgang]

Take a look at Brownells Brass wizard.....http://brightcove.vo.llnwd.net/e1/p...5001_th-1430023513001.jpg?pubId=1275380506001