MAGNETS | How It's Made

Ever wondered how magnets are made? Get the full history and 'making of' right here!

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[ExTess]

For those of you thinking that this process is wasteful and sloppy, let me introduce you to the metal industry, where a lot of processes like this are the norm. Mass-produced designs for items like these are very hard to make safely in any kind of laboratory or workshop, and factories rarely involve some kind of quiet, safe environment. Metalworking in general is very loud, messy, and slightly dangerous. That doesn't mean that a lot of the materials go to waste, though; the sand, concrete, and metal scraps used are usually ground down, cleaned, and recycled for later use again, since its mostly just silicates and metals. The metals are even sometimes chemically sifted back into their base components and reused as well, since they're the same metals that will go into the magnets anyway.

This is coming from a guy who worked as a metalworker/welder for a few years, and who has absolutely set himself on fire several times from just being around red-hot metal for too long. It's just the way it is.

[ohcrounches]

Dude I didnt expect magnet making to be this intense man holy shit.

[DrumApe]

Never thought that making magnets is so labour intensive and difficult. Really expected the process to be almost fully automated. Thanks for the video!

[josedelgado]

I can't believe that when it comes to manufacturing magnets, one of the steps to getting magnets out of their molds is to beat the living crap out of it.

[tinderbox]

A certain part of my modern brain understands the physics behind magnetism, but the rest of my brain refuses to completely believe that it isn't just magic.

[iakan]

"So what do you do for a living?"
"I beat the shit out of flaming sand blocks"

[commenturthegreat]

I thought it would be an organized assembly line, instead they bust open flaming sand using a sledgehammer

[geevinz]

It is mind blowing how the process to make this is so intensive, but yet they sell for so cheap

[mehranmahdlou]

I honestly did not expect this much manual work!

[highcotton]

Wow, a lot of work goes into making these. Kudos to the people doing it every day!

[testpower]

I've been wondering how this magnet was made since the age of 3. After 40 years I understand.

[psychosludge]

I want to hear this man read me a bedtime story

[EVILBUNNY]

It’s 2am. I’m lying here in my bed trying to get to sleep and the stupid thought of how tf magnets are made is literally keeping my up. I was so worked up I got my phone and searched up this video. Needless to say I’ve finished with more questions than I started with and now I really cannot get to sleep.

[chriswinkler]

Informative to say the least. As a kid, I had a set of Brio trains that depended on magnets to link them together. What was interesting however, was the fact that if you did a 180 (Half circle) on any of the train cars, and the polarity was the same, they repelled each other instead of attracting. As a 'youngin', I was mindblown by the concept and would always try to force them to link. Obviously, no such luck :P

[nope]

It's like giving pieces of metal super powers.

[YEFAR]

I've always thought how magnets would be made but for some reason i didn't searched it till now and now that ive seen it, it has matched my expectations of "there must be some hardwork to make these things"

[lmAIone]

I bet whoever invented them must have thought they had the force

[mimikoko]

in my childhood i was wondering magnets came from. now i know and working in magnet industry since 2016 up to present and its awesome! ..

[chekhovmoreno]

It is amazing how this thing is made and the power it holds too

[skittyrocks]

Huggbees really does follow a bit of the original script. Nuts