<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>Richard:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Looking at the assembly you have pictured, is the assembly heavier than the amount the magnets are helping?  Have you measured the net effect including the mounting hardware?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Also, did you see the article in the July Journal from Hans Velo on his new magnet inovation?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Curious,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>dave<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********<BR><BR>On 7/11/2003 at 11:45 PM Richard Brekne wrote:</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid">I have a question for you folks who are well aquainted with different properties of wood... what mixes and what doesnt. <P>If one was to cut out a section of the key to put in an assembly like my keymagnet assembly, what king of wood type would be  a good choice to use for the assembly. It needs to be hard enough to facilitate a center pin that holds the magnet shank. <P><IMG height=204 src="cid:200307111655440384.0215B0EE6352" width=350> <BR>Thanks <P>RicB <P>-- <BR>Richard Brekne <BR>RPT, N.P.T.F. <BR>UiB, Bergen, Norway <BR><A href="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <BR><A href="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <BR><A href="http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html">http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html</A> <BR> <FONT size=2 Arial></P></BLOCKQUOTE>**************** END MESSAGE FROM Richard Brekne *********************</FONT> </BODY></HTML> <PRE> _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________</PRE>