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Incorrect Polarity


Jolemai

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With a great deal of swearing, typically. tongue.png

If it's in plastic, carve out a niche beside it and hope that you used little enough superglue to lever it out with a paper clip or the tip of a needle file. If you used too much superglue, you're probably gonna dig quite a trench trying to lever it out.

In pewter, you're in for a rough day. I have no experience with finecast, so can't say there.

Good luck. After working to get it out, this will be a mistake you never make again. msn-wink.gif

Dig two little nicks either side and use your clippers to grasp and work it out. The best way to prevent reverse polarity id to magnetize the arm first, then drill the torso, then place the torso's magnet onto the arm's magnet, then use the arm to push the torso magnet into place. Then use that same arm to magnetize the entire squad. There you'll have it, no more reverse polarity.

 

Cheers,

Jono

I made a little tool to keep mine correct...glued a tiny magnet to a piece of sprue and put a handle on it, I only insert magnets into shoulders and weapons with it, then use them to seat their partner. Once(before I made it) I got polarity wrong, I use super glue so I just used debonder and a bigger magnet to get the mini one out

Drill a hole right along the side of the magnet, and then use a rod or paperclip to lever the sucker out of there.

 

In future, take a small nail or metal rod and place it on one end of your stack of magnets. Line up all the arms you want to magnetize, and push the magnets in on the side without the nail. When that's done, immediately switch the nail to the opposite end of the stack, and push into the torsos using the now nail-less end.

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