Originally Posted by Jon G
If you have a strong magnet...the type used in older style computer hard drives...this will sometimes be enough to pull the broken end out for you. Good luck.

I've kept one of those from a circa 1970 Memorex 30 meg disk drive in my garage since I scrapped a bunch of them for the gold content in the early 80's. Probably use it once a month, usually for magnetizing screwdrivers, etc. Probably weighs 5-10 pounds.


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