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 Post subject: Magnetic Godsend.
PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 9:32 am • # 1 
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I'm not sure if it qualifies as frugal, but it definitely has come in handy a few times. It's an extendable magnetic pick up tool from Northern Tool. I just stick it to the leg of my desk, and grab it whenever a hook decides to escape. Cost around ten bucks (this was before the recent inflation).

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Recently I ordered a Yeti and a pack of hooks, which opened during transit.

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The tool made quick work of the mess.

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The very first day I had it, I did a sweep and it picked up a #10 hook I had somehow unknowingly lost.


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 Post subject: Re: Magnetic Godsend.
PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 7:44 am • # 2 
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Great idea. I think my magnetic pick up tool will be moving from the garage to the fly tying desk. Thanks!

I have a circular magnet from a microwave oven magnetron attached to the shaft of my fly tying vise. Good place to store hooks while tying up a bunch of flies of the same size. Long term effect has been that all of my fly tying tools are now magnetized. Even so, when a #20 or smaller hook goes airborne, I don't even look for it any more; I figure it will be dealt with during the quarterly vacuuming. I don't go in sock feet in the tying room any more, though.
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 Post subject: Re: Magnetic Godsend.
PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 10:11 am • # 3 
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You old people will try to find any way you can to stop from bending over. :lol (I'm trying to train my parakeet to pick up things that I drop.)


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