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shopsmith mounted planer table material

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If the mounted planer tables have stainless steel covering the aluminum substrate, why doesn't my magnetic dial indicator stick to it? Is the surface NOT stainless steel??? :confused:

Any insight would be appreciated.
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Many stainless steels won't hold a magnet.

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Mike907 wrote:Many stainless steels won't hold a magnet.

Mike
according to Peter Eng, a physicist at the University of Chicago, is that different stainless steels contain different proportions of nickel (added to help keep steel from cracking and to allow the addition of more carbon, for strength). More than two percent nickel interferes with what Eng calls iron atoms’ “magnetic moments.”
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Dick
1965 Mark VII S/N 407684
1951 10 ER S/N ER 44570 -- Reborn 9/16/14
1950 10 ER S/N ER 33479 Reborn July 2016
1950 10 ER S/N ER 39671
1951 jigsaw X 2
1951 !0 ER #3 in rebuild
500, Jointer, Bsaw, Bsander, Planer
2014 Mark 7 W/Lift assist - 14 4" Jointer - DC3300
And a plethora of small stuff .....

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Re: shopsmith mounted planer table material

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rjent wrote:
Mike907 wrote:Many stainless steels won't hold a magnet.

Mike
according to Peter Eng, a physicist at the University of Chicago, is that different stainless steels contain different proportions of nickel (added to help keep steel from cracking and to allow the addition of more carbon, for strength). More than two percent nickel interferes with what Eng calls iron atoms’ “magnetic moments.
My stars, you learn something everyday .... even at my age ....

And I thought I knew everything LOL

Thanks Mike!

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