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!
Soft iron in the house?
Mar 16, 2006
3 Replies
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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