I made my own mag cleaner. I bought the rare earth magnets from Lee Valley Tools, used a piece of flat iron for a backing, then encased the whole thing in fiberglass resin. All you need is a small plastic tub to serve as a mould. I use a piece of self stick velcro to hold the scrubber pad on, and a piece of self stick felt pad on the outer half. I think I ended up using eight 3/4" magnets on each half to get it to work on the 1/2" glass of my tank. It does matter how you arrange them too to get the strongest attraction between the halves. Cant remember the layout now, but I had to experiment with it to get it right. The magnets cost me about $20.

For routine glass cleaning are people using these magnetic cleaners, or just a credit card, or one of those "Pro-Scrapers"?

I was told by someone to cut a 45-degree notch in the end of a length of 1/2" PVC, and fit a razor blade half-deep in there. They claimed it made a great scraper.

Tried it today with some rigid tubing (5/8") and a single-edged blade - as far as scrapers go, it works real good.

Still can't decide about a magnet...

Been using that setup for years works great... :mrgreen:

I think it was Muck!

:mrgreen:

Just be careful you keep the blade straight and level, and take your time...

And NEVER run with the blades pointed toward your body, children...
oops, that's for scissors. :redface:

:biggrin: ... agree with you though, Quinn - it's not a quick job with that little setup. Care and patience, yup yup.

Can't recall the name of my magnet cleaner only used it a few times. It seemed to really freak the fish out, sort of like fingers on a chalk board, do you think I'm in left field on that. Anyone else notice it freaks the fish out?

I use the big scapper sold in fish stores with about a two inch changable blade on the bottom. My powder blue loves to attack it, he hates that thing.

Dave

Sand between the magnets can make that sound. Maybe that?

With out going on about this nope that's not it. When I move the outside magnet the inside one skips-vibrates along trying to stay with the outside one
if that makes any sence. The vibrating motion is what the fish freak about.

Dave :rolleyes: