I want to build an electromagnet at home, and I'd like a "soft iron" core, it seems. Does anyone have suggestions for where I could get "soft iron" in this day and age? Steel seems to be our modus operandi...
Thanks!
Use the core of an old relay perhaps? Or open up one side of a transformer??
The laminations are silicon steel.
I would have though that the suggestion to use soft iron was made before laminations and silicon steel were available. Or indeed ready made electromagnets.
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