In my quest to find affordable encapsulated magnets, I had a light bulb moment. Coin size neodymium magnets and acrylic coin holders. For this project you will need weld on 3 or 4 and these items from Amazon.
I just happened to have Weldon 3 on hand.
The idea here is to put the magnet in the holder like you would a coin and solvent weld the cases onto them. Like so. The coin holders come with foam inserts that fit the magnet perfectly .
The trick is leaving a tiny crack between the halves for the solvent to run into.
Once welded squeeze to insure a good weld.
And just like that you have encapsulated magnets. I will let these cure out for 24 hours then I will water test them. I chose epoxy coated magnets for redundancy but I like the idea of acrylic encapsulated better. I will report back in a couple days on how the welds did.
The idea here is to put the magnet in the holder like you would a coin and solvent weld the cases onto them. Like so. The coin holders come with foam inserts that fit the magnet perfectly .
The trick is leaving a tiny crack between the halves for the solvent to run into.
Once welded squeeze to insure a good weld.
And just like that you have encapsulated magnets. I will let these cure out for 24 hours then I will water test them. I chose epoxy coated magnets for redundancy but I like the idea of acrylic encapsulated better. I will report back in a couple days on how the welds did.
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. I’m planning on putting encrusting corals on them, that way they are movable and I can remove them to frag if needed.
