Magnetic Paint How To

Magnetic Paint How-to Guide

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Magically Magnetic Paint Additive is a wonderful new product that when added to ordinary paint and applied to a wall, renders that wall attractive to magnets. Any smooth, dry, clean wall painted with magnetic paint will become instantly attractive to magnets, opening up all sorts of new possibilities for magnetic decorating and perhaps best of all, hanging pictures and photos magnetically. Now there is no need for nail holes, tack holes or unsightly tape marks to mar walls.

Magnetic paint is safe around children, pets and computers. It will not affect pacemakers or other magnetically sensitive instruments. The reason is that magnetic paint is not actually magnetic. That is to say, steel items will not stick to a wall painted with magnetic paint. Only magnets will stick. Magnetic paint contains millions of microscopic magnetically attractive particles that the magnets are attracted to. Each coat of magnetic paint builds up a thicker layer of these particles making the magnets attraction to the wall stronger.

Any magnet with sufficient strength will stick to a wall painted with magnetic paint. Some low quality or low strength magnets that may stick well enough to a steel fridge door may not stick as well to a wall painted with magnetic paint. Magnetic paint is not solid steel and nothing works better with any magnet than solid steel. Magnetic paint was designed to be used with sheet magnets. Sheet magnets are thin sheets of flexible rubber or plastic with millions of tiny iron particles embedded in the sheet. These iron particles are permanently magnetized when the sheets are sent through an electro-magnetic field. Sheet magnets stick so well to magnetic paint because they are very light weight, but strong. Their strength is spread out over a large surface area. The more area a magnet covers, the better and stronger it holds. At the same time, the thicker the sheet magnet, the stronger it is and the more weight it will hold. Sheet magnets work best with magnetic paint when the magnet makes good solid contact with the magnetic paint. We are all used to placing a piece of paper to be displayed under a magnet on our fridge door. With magnetic paint, it is always best to attach the sheet magnet to the back of the item to be displayed so the magnet actually touches the magnetic painted surface.

Another type of magnet that works very well on a wall painted with magnetic paint are Rare Earth Magnets. These magnets are very strong. Care should be exercised in their handling around children as they can snap together very quickly. If they snap together too quickly, they can break and throw pieces off in any direction. To solve this problem with rare earth magnets, David Lytle designed his Technostryd Rare Earth Safety Cap Magnets. These special rare earth magnets are pole-balanced so they will not snap together or break. The safety caps are also quite colorful and the magnets work very well with his magnetic paint.

Sheet magnets are often covered with a self adhesive on the front surface so they can be adhered to the back of any flat, light-weight object. Now a photo or a child's drawing can be made to stick to any steel surface. Magically Magnetic has inexpensive self adhesive magnetic sheets available in many cut sizes, thicknesses and shapes or in rolls up to twenty four inches wide.